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

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

Last week’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a gamechanger in the long-running global ...

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

The ruling was the result of years of efforts by activists and small island nations and initiated by Pacific Islands Students ...

The top UN court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out ...

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

The opinion of the International Court of Justice is seen by some as a turning point in international climate law, with ...

Severe weather and natural disasters, are on the rise. This week, the top United Nations court ruled that countries are ...

After a “landmark” ruling from the International Court of Justice, journalists can expect more lawsuits against fossil fuel ...

In a landmark, unanimous advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that a state's violation of its legal ...

Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States to protect the ...