The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in ...

In the largest case in its history, the International Court of Justice last week ruled, in a non-binding opinion, that ...

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

The ICJ issued an opinion on climate change that stated the obligations of the Paris Agreement come with legal liability. A ...

A landmark opinion delivered by the United Nations' highest court last week that governments must protect the climate is ...

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

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

With the world’s top court declaring that countries have binding legal obligations to protect the climate, climate justice is no longer just a moral demand— it is now a matter of international law ...

Legal jurisdictions can no longer wring their hands in anguish and complain that they do not have enough authority or precedence to rule on matters relating to climate change.

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

The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states have a legal obligation to tackle climate change and that failing to ...

The world's top court will Wednesday deliver a seminal ruling laying out what legal obligations countries have to prevent ...