The world’s top court may not be able to compel polluting states to halt planet-warming emissions, but experts say its ...

In the Great Hall of the Peace Palace in The Hague, fifteen judges of the International Court of Justice spoke in rare and unanimous clarity when they declared, at last, that a clean, healthy, and ...

The International Court of Justice said that climate change threatens all life and may violate human rights. It also said ...

By saying that all countries were firmly bound to a swathe of legal obligations, experts say the ruling will influence ...

The question we have been asking is ‘what will Labor do with power?” Now we have the answer – the least possible.

The young activist who has pushed for six years for international law to clarify the duty of larger nations to protect smaller ones from climate change sees new hope in this week’s UN ruling.

The world’s top court has made it easier for governments to be held legally accountable for failing to tackle the climate crisis – in an a move that experts say will have profound implications for ...

Judges at the UN’s highest court are set to issue a decision Wednesday that could set a legal benchmark for action on the ...

On Wednesday, PBS’s Amanpour & Company featured eponymous host Christiane Amanpour interviewing and lamenting to Vanuatu ...