The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is living with the daily realities of climate change, as intensifying cyclones, rising ...

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is living with the daily realities of climate change, as intensifying cyclones, rising ...

The top court of the United Nations on Wednesday declared that countries have an obligation to combat climate change — and ...

In a landmark decision, the International Court of Justice found that polluting countries are now legally obligated to ...

The International Court of Justice found that polluting countries are now legally obligated to address global warming.

The top U.N. court has opened a hearing to deliver an opinion in a landmark case about nations’ obligations to tackle climate ...

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

PORT VILA, Vanuatu — When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu's Havannah Harbor a decade ...

The failure of countries to protect the planet from climate change may be a violation of international law, the UN's top ...

We went as lawyers — from Blue Ocean Law, the firm that represented Vanuatu in the historic advisory opinion proceedings on climate change before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Member states must cooperate to tackle climate change and not take actions that set back environmental protections, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) said in a non-binding advisory ...

Vanuatu has also urged the top United Nations court to recognize the harm caused by climate change in its judgment on the legal obligation of countries to fight it and address the consequences of ...