Judges with the U.N.’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a ...

Severe weather and natural disasters, are on the rise. This week, the top United Nations court ruled that countries are ...

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the obligation of states to protect the climate system and the environment from manmade emissions of greenhouse ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a unanimous opinion on July 23, 2025, that climate change is "an existential ...

In a landmark, unanimous advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that a state's violation of its legal ...

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 ICJ issued an opinion on climate change that stated the obligations of the Paris Agreement come with legal liability. A ...

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

The top UN court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out ...

The world's top court will Wednesday deliver a landmark ruling laying out what legal obligations countries have to prevent ...