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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Paris Agreement struck through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has rallied a global response to ...

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