After a “landmark” ruling from the International Court of Justice, journalists can expect more lawsuits against fossil fuel ...

The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws related to climate change and, if they fail to act, could be held responsible ...

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

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

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

Judges with the U.N.’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a ...

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

The International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a ...

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

Climate activists are having their day in court, if Wednesday’s International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s unanimous opinion is a bellwether. The Hague court declaration that governments were legally ...

In a landmark, unanimous advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that a state's violation of its legal ...

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