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

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

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

The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The ...

The opinion of the International Court of Justice is seen by some as a turning point in international climate law, with ...

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change. The International Court of Justice’s ...

The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion says countries could be in violation of international law if ...

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 Court affirmed that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right, and that states have binding legal duties to mitigate climate harm under international law. For global retailers ...

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

Officials from almost 100 countries are at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands, asking the court to issue an opinion on the responsibility of certain nations to protect the ...

Urged on by its youth climate justice advocates, the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has now taken up the torch on the ICJ campaign, sharing last month a draft resolution to the General Assembly ...