An opinion by the World Court finds new legal requirements in the Paris Agreement, raising legal questions about the U.S.

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

The highest court of the United Nations rules that greenhouse gas emissions are "unequivocally caused by human activities" and "without territorial limits". The International Court of Justice in The ...

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an ...

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

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

As Australia’s courts rule yet again that climate is outside their jurisdiction, the ICJ made it a legal obligation for countries to act on the crisis.

Recently, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a landmark ruling that could breathe new life into the climate ...

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

Major economies including China and the EU on Thursday welcomed a ruling by the world's highest court paving the way for ...

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