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

When President Donald Trump announced in early 2025 that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement for the ...

Australia needs to come up with its next emission reduction target under its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The lobbying ...

ICJ advisory opinion on climate obligations reaffirms global South's perspective, raises questions on Paris Agreement ...

Brazil's COP30 summit marks an inflection point for the UN process of negotiating climate action, as the first summit since the Paris Agreement became fully operational – and a moment to think about ...

Exploring the potential of mobilising private capital for sustainable finance and climate-smart infrastructure development ...

The ICJ — not to be confused with the International Criminal Court, which is already familiar to most of us in the ...

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 ...

As Australia’s courts rule yet again that climate is outside their jurisdiction, the ICJ made it a legal obligation for countries to act on the crisis.

This obligation arises from human rights, maritime and the customary international law, as well as the Paris Agreement and ...

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 ...