The court presents this opinion with a hope that it hopes its conclusions will allow the law to inform and guide social and ...

Around the world, climate change is being tackled, not just in parliaments and global summits, but also in villages and farming communities. In these local spaces, lives and livelihoods depend ...

A founding father of the Pacific climate movement on Thursday welcomed an international court's decision on global warming ...

Two days before the waters of the Guadalupe River swelled into a deadly and devastating Fourth of July flood in Kerr County, ...

The paramount chief of a volcanic island in Vanuatu said Thursday he was "very impressed" by a global court's declaration that countries must tackle climate change. Global warming "keeps on changing ...

The ICJ’s president said states breaching their obligations to address the crisis would be committing ’an internationally ...

The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states are obliged under international law to tackle climate change and ...

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

One of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the fallout from climate change has just won a landmark legal battle.

The United Nation's International Court of Justice says climate change isn’t just a crisis — it’s a legal responsibility.

In a landmark advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice also said high-emissions countries may need to pay ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change.