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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has urged states to regulate fossil fuel extraction and exploration, in a landmark ...
A South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis brought “the world's biggest problem to the world's ...
Equatorial Guinea on Friday filed a case with the International Court of Justice against France over a luxury mansion in ...
Tired of pleading for countries to act on climate change, Vanuatu upped the ante -- it asked the world's highest court if governments were legally obligated to do something about it.
The ICJ case builds on long-standing frustration with slow progress at climate summits. “We’ve been involved in the UNFCCC process, the COPs, for like 30 years.
A: "We thought it was necessary to take a legal approach to the issue of climate change because we feel that the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) process, which has ...
Back to homepage / Live news 'We have to try everything': Vanuatu envoy taking climate fight to ICJ Nice (France) (AFP) – Tired of pleading for countries to act on climate change, Vanuatu upped ...
On 2 May 2025, the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) – in collaboration with the African Climate Platform, the Environmental Lawyers Collective for Africa, Natural Justice, and resilient40 – submitted ...
As Vanuatu's environment minister, he has taken the decades-long climate fight by Pacific nations to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, hoping to safeguard their islands' survival.