An International Court of Justice ruling that climate harm violates international law could shape reparations lawsuits as ...

In the court hearings, youth activists representing vulnerable communities from frontline states in the Pacific and the ...

The court's decision could result in legal action against countries that fail to honour their climate commitments In a ...

Climate change is an existential problem of “planetary proportions” that affects all forms of life and the very health of the ...

ANALYSIS: Legal experts tell Stuti Mishra a long-awaited International Court of Justice ruling provides ‘a clear blueprint to ...

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

The United Nations' International Court of Justice issued a striking opinion this week that opened the door for countries to ...

An advisory opinion on responsibility for emissions means that Canada could be on the hook for major climate-change-related damages in the years ahead ...

The International Court of Justice has ruled that any country that fails to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuels ...

# On  July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered an advisory opinion at the request of the UN General Assembly - driven by small island states such as Antigua and Barbuda, Vanuatu, ...

For the first time ever, world court clarifies countries' duties to protect the Earth's climate, communities and ecosystems ...

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns b ...