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Governments Should Support Vanuatu’s UN Climate Resolution

The world’s highest court has spoken: tackling climate change is not a choice: it’s a legal obligation. Now it’s up to the ...
Jurist

UN experts support resolution confirming member states’ obligations to tackle climate change

UN experts urged member states on Thursday to support the General Assembly (UNGA) resolution endorsing the International Court of Justice (ICJ)'s advisory opinion, which mandates states to comply ...

Bring case to ICJ for Melissa damage, says Golding

OPPOSITION Leader Mark Golding on Tuesday urged Jamaica to take a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...
Human Rights Watch

Q&A: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30)

Following the International Court of Justice’s unanimous advisory opinion on July 23, 2025, confirming states’ legal duties to protect the climate and cooperate, COP30 should press governments to ...
Grist

The Pacific won a landmark climate case at the world’s top court. Now they want countries to act.

In January 2004, Cyclone Heta pummeled the shores of the island nation of Niue, uprooting trees and flooding homes with 184 mile-per-hour winds and 164-foot waves. As dawn approached, after an intense ...
Phys.org

Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It's not too late to make it right

Climate change is the biggest issue of our time. 2024 marked both the hottest year on record and the highest levels of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions in the past two million years. Global warming ...