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

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 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, where public hearings begin on December 2.
By Golnouche K. Barzegar (Justice Info)
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