The ICJ advisory serves as a crucial ‘nudge’ to the sovereign states who have not been able to make a decisive dent to attain the target of 1.5°C.

Pay now, or pay more later. That’s the message sent by the International Court of Justice to fossil fuel-producing countries ...

Zeldin and Wright challenged the global scientific consensus on climate change that global warming and its impacts have since ...

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 Trump EPA plans to reverse the 2009 endangerment finding that labels CO2 a pollutant, threatening US climate regulations. Using a legal argument to dodge scientific consensus, the move could ...

Revoking the 2009 endangerment finding would weaken regulation of greenhouse gases and shift more responsibility to states ...

Environmental Protection Agency officials might end the agency's prior "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gas emissions ...

The EPA’s decision does not alter CT's efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions but is likely to make it harder for it to ...

The hottest year on record was 2023 — until 2024, when the Earth’s average temperature reached 1.55C above the pre-industrial ...

An opinion by the World Court finds new legal requirements in the Paris Agreement, raising legal questions about the U.S.

A landmark opinion delivered by the United Nations' highest court last week that governments must protect the climate is ...

The Trump administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Tuesday revoking a science-based determination ...