Sub-Saharan Africa will miss the UN’s 2030 goal to provide clean cooking for all on its current path, with universal access ...

Climate change is "an existential problem of planetary proportions" and countries have a responsibility to take it on, the International Court of Justice says.

NEW DELHI – In a ground-breaking climate ruling, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the prime judicial organ of the ...

The top U.N. court has opened a hearing to deliver an opinion in a landmark case about nations’ obligations to tackle climate ...

In a landmark advisory opinion, the United Nations’ top court said countries could be in violation of international law if ...

The Trump administration reportedly plans to eliminate an Environmental Protection Agency rule that’s crucial to the federal ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been using science to warn about evermore dangerous climate change in increasingly urgent tones. Now he's enlisting something seemingly more ...

The top court of the United Nations on Wednesday declared that countries have an obligation to combat climate change — and that a failure to do so could constitute a violation of international ...

International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system ...

The International Court of Justice, the top United Nations court, decided Wednesday that countries would be violating ...

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

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