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ICJ Landmark Climate Opinion Declares Legal Obligation To Protect Current and Future Generations

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...

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ICJ rules nations legally obligated to fight climate change

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World Court to issue landmark opinion on states’ climate obligations

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UN's top court says all countries have to act against climate change. Here are the key takeaways

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change, its 15-black-robed judges weighing in for the first time on what the court’s president called “an existential pr...

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Climate Science Is Now the Law

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Top UN court says treaties compel big nations to curb global warming

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UN's highest court says climate change is an 'existential threat'

Wealthy countries of the Global North told the judges that existing climate treaties, including the 2015 Paris Agreement, which are largely non-binding, should be the basis for deciding their respons...

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The UN’s top court delivers landmark decision on tackling climate change

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AP explains UN's highest court ruling on climate change liability

World court joins the fight over climate change

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UN court rules countries must treat climate change as an 'existential threat'

The UN's top court on Wednesday ruled climate change an "existential problem of planetary proportions" and said countries had a legal duty to act or face consequences.

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Countries must address climate change threat, U.N.'s highest court says

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Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change

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Does the World Court’s Sweeping Climate Opinion Matter? Five Takeaways.

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 ...

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Top UN court says treaties compel wealthy nations to curb global warming

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World Court says climate change is an 'existential threat'

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Major economies welcome 'milestone' ICJ climate ruling

The ICJ said climate change was an "urgent and existential threat" and countries had a legal duty to prevent harm from their planet-warming pollution.

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International law includes climate-change obligations, UN court says

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States legally obligated to tackle climate change: ICJ

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ICJ says climate change an ‘existential threat’, states legally bound to act

States must take necessary steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, halt fossil fuel expansion and provide reparations to vulnerable countries, says ICJ

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Sustainable Finance Newsletter - Who is responsible for climate change?

A decade since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, two big outstanding questions have delayed action: Who is responsible for climate change and who should pay?

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World’s top court says major polluters may need to pay reparations for climate harm

It marks the first time the International Court of Justice, the UN’s top court based in the Hague, has considered the climate crisis.