The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for ...

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

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

Most importantly, recognition would allow Palestine to demand humanitarian corridors, international peacekeeping forces, and ...

The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws ...

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

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

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

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