Last week’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a gamechanger in the long-running global ...

Nations must protect current and future generations from environmental harm, says the International Court of Justice.

The International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, handed down an advisory opinion on 23 July 2025 stating that climate change “imperils all forms of life”. This followed a case brought by ...

The ruling was the result of years of efforts by activists and small island nations and initiated by Pacific Islands Students ...

The advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice is a legal milestone. Conceived by law students from small ...

Countries have wide-ranging obligations to adequately tackle climate change, the International Court of Justice has found.

The opinion by the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, was immediately welcomed by environmental ...

ICJ declares states must act on emissions or face legal consequences, framing climate change as a global rights and justice ...

The International Court of Justice, the top United Nations court, decided Wednesday that countries would be violating ...

As Australia’s courts rule yet again that climate is outside their jurisdiction, the ICJ made it a legal obligation for countries to act on the crisis.

The International Court of Justice's advisory opinion establishes binding legal obligations for combating climate change, ...

The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states are obligated under international law to tackle climate change and warned that failing to do so could open the door to reparations.In a ...