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

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

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

The World Court said countries' national climate plans must be "stringent" and aligned to the Paris Agreement aim to limit ...

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

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change. The International Court of Justice’s ...

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

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

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

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

The U.N.'s top court issued a non-binding legal opinion on the extent of legal and financial responsibility countries have ...

Last week, 15 judges from the International Court of Justice at the Vredespaleis in the Hague, at the request of the UN General Assembly, pronounced solemnly on climate change. Every state, they ...