On December 4, the US made an oral statement in the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion relating to the ...

The island nation of Vanuatu criticized representatives for major emitters like the U.S. and China for their remarks during ...

The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on Monday, hearing the plight of several small island ...

The current United Nations framework for fighting climate change should be preserved, the United States told the ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s chief advisers would include one person who calls global warming an “existential” threat and ...

In a landmark hearing Wednesday at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the United States argued that human ...

It was only in the late 1980s that states became aware of the causes and risks associated with climate change,” a legal ...

In a landmark international hearing on climate change, a U.S. representative backed the Paris Agreement, but left unanswered questions about U.S. commitments in a Trump presidency.

Given the long-term nature of the deal, China, as the world's largest developing country, has advocated for stronger resource ...

The UN’s court will soon clarify nations’ legal responsibility to avert the human rights impacts of climate catastrophe.

The case comes just after a bitterly negotiated climate deal at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, which saw wealthy polluting ...

The groups call for the recognition of the Rights of Nature in the COP negotiation process, rejection of the commodification ...