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

The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in ...

The International Court of Justice on Wednesday delivered an advisory opinion in a landmark case about nations' obligations ...

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

The ICJ ruling is blunt: the multilateral climate change and environmental agreements and treaties that countries–including ...

The court president judge Yuji Iwasawa said during last week’s ruling that countries’ failure to take appropriate action to ...

The top court of the United Nations on Wednesday declared that countries have an obligation to combat climate change — and ...

Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States to protect the climate system.

The ICJ unanimously agreed that states are obligated to mitigate climate change. The Trump administration has rejected the authority of international courts.

The Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI) affirms the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) historic advisory opinion ...

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.