On December 2, the International Court of Justice began hearing oral statements on the Advisory Opinion relating to the ...

Over the next two weeks, 98 countries and 12 organisations will testify in a major climate change case at the International ...

The United Nations' top court will consider if the world’s largest carbon-emitting nations should pay reparations to smaller, ...

The world’s biggest climate case begins at The Hague in the Netherlands today. Oral arguments will be heard by the ...

Australia’s government is being condemned by climate action groups for discouraging the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...

The International Court of Justice will hear testimony from nearly 100 countries including Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation that initiated the effort to get a legal opinion. Vanuatu's Special Envoy ...

Vanuatu's special envoy to climate change says their case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is based on the ...

Attorney Julian Aguon, founder of the Guam-based law firm Blue Ocean Law, was one of several people who opened an ongoing ...

Countries facing existential crises due to climate change have asked the International Court of Justice in the Hague to look beyond climate treaties, like the Paris Agreement, when it considers its ...

The first day of International Court of Justice hearings on countries' obligations to combat climate change revealed deep ...

Ma Xinmin, a legal advisor in China's foreign ministry, tells the International Court of Justice that the existing treaties produced by UN-backed climate change negotiations should be the benchmark fo ...