Vanuatu

Climate justice - Arnold Kiel Loughman (Attorney General of the Republic of Vanuatu) pleads before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for polluting states to be held responsible for the effects of climate change.

Climate justice: who argued what at the ICJ

9 January 2025 by Margherita Capacci

The hearings in the climate case before the International Court of Justice wrapped up last December in The Hague. The court’s advisory opinion is expected within a year. Countries from the Global South and small states from the Pa [...]

Legal battle for the climate before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: Cyclone Pam (2015) over Vanuatu as seen from a satellite.

The battle for the climate takes on the ICJ

29 November 2024 by Golnouche K. Barzegar

The COP29 just ended in Azerbaijan with a financial agreement deemed insufficient by many participants. Now states of the Global South and environmental campaigners are pinning their hopes on the legal battle being waged before th [...]

Climate change - Following a sudden rise in water levels, two residents of the Marshall Islands are walking with water up to their chests.

Opinion

Why those experiencing "climate hell" are taking their case to the UN Court

16 June 2023 by Géraldine Giraudeau

Those whose feet are already in the water, in the Pacific, have opened a front in the battle for climate justice before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands. Solicited by a resolution of the United Nations G [...]

Climate change - Cyclone in Vanuatu (2015)

Podcast

Vanuatu brings climate justice to the ICJ

30 May 2023 by Asymmetrical Haircuts

On March 29 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on climate change. The resolution was championed by the small Pacific Island nation [...]

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