The International Court of Justice will issue an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and what consequences they may face if they don’t.

THE HAGUE] The top United Nations court will on Wednesday (Jul 23) hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters’ responsibilities towards the countries suffering most.

The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters’ responsibilities towards the countries suffering most.

Advisory opinions are not legally binding, but from the world’s highest court they present an authoritative and persuasive position on states’ climate obligations.

The ruling’s scope is limited to two American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s efforts to penalize and isolate the world’s highest criminal court.

International law knows of no graver crime than genocide. The 1948 convention, which Israel was among the first nations to join, defines genocide as the perpetration of any of several heinous ...

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is living with the daily realities of climate change, as intensifying cyclones, rising seas and saltwater intrusion reshape its coasts and disrupt life

South Africa's Ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusi Madonsela, condemned Israel's continued practices that perpetuate occupation and genocide in the Gaza Strip,