The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws ...

The Pacific Elders' Voice, or PEV, an independent group made up of Pacific Island leaders, has issued a statement applauding ...

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

A profound thread runs through the judgment and the separate opinion of one of the judges: that biodiversity is not merely a ...

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

The ICJ’s advisory opinion spells out states’ duties on climate, opening doors for lawsuits and stronger climate action. View ...

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

The climate debate has whipsawed in recent years. Businesses frequently have been caught in the middle, with stakeholders including government regulators, activist investors, consumers, ...

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

Countries have wide-ranging obligations to adequately tackle climate change, the International Court of Justice has found.

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

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