The court’s reasoning addressed several major legal issues, including the scope of states’ climate obligations, how human rights obligations should shape climate policy-making, the right to reparatio...

The science on climate change has long been settled. Now the law is, too.

“The stakes could not be higher. The survival of my people and so many others is on the line,” Arnold Kiel Loughman, attorney general of the island nation of Vanuatu, told the court during a week of h...

The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate chang...

the International Court of Justice, established by the United Nations and also known as the World Court, issued a stinging advisory opinion saying that countries have a legal obligation to limit the ...

“The advisory opinion is probably the most consequential in the history of the court because it clarifies international law obligations to avoid catastrophic harm that would imperil the survival of h...