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 ...

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

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

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

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, 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 UN's top court on Wednesday ruled climate change an "existential problem of planetary proportions" and said countries had ...

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

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

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.

Nations must protect current and future generations from environmental harm, says the International Court of Justice.

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