Vanuatu calls on International Court of Justice to recognize harm caused by climate change. A precedent for climate change-related lawsuits.

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Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment Ralph Regenvanu (left) and Attorney-General  Arnold Kiel Loughman represented Vanuatu at the public hearing. Photo: Reuters 
Vanuatu has urged the top United Nations court to recognise the harm caused by climate change in its judgment on the legal obligation of countries to fight it and address the consequences of them contributing to global warming.

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Vanuatu urges top court recognise climate change harms

Vanuatu 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.

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Vanuatu calls on the World Court to recognize climate change harms

Vanuatu's special envoy to climate change says their case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is based on the argument that those harming the climate are breaking international law.

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Vanuatu Urges World Court to Recognize Climate Change Harm  Vanuatu has made an impassioned plea to the United Nations' highest court, urging recognition of the damage caused by climate change and the legal obligations countries have to mitigate and address its effects. The Pacific island nation is leading an initiative, supported by over 100 countries and organizations, to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice.Ralph R…

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Vanuatu Urges World Court to Recognize Climate Change Harm

While an advisory opinion from the World Court would not be legally binding, experts say the court's opinion on climate change could be cited in climate change lawsuits around the world.

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Vanuatu on Monday, December 2, urged the United Nations’ top 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 them contributing to global warming. Vanuatu, one of the small island states that has spearheaded the effort to get the World Court to give a so-called advisory opinion, was the first of more than 100 states and i…

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Vanuatu urges World Court to recognize climate change harms

The Philippine government asserted before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday, December 3, that countries most responsible for driving climate change are committing an "internationally wrongful act," demanding reparations.

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The drivers of the case for the International Tribunal to issue an opinion on countries' obligations to climate change argue that it violates the right to self-determination of peoples and demands compensation from the most polluting countriesVanuatu and Pacific students: this is how the cause for climate justice was born Outside there was color, flags and banners. Within the sobriety and solemnity of a trial. One of the corridors of the Peace P…

Los impulsores de la causa para que el Tribunal Internacional emita una opinión sobre las obligaciones de los países respecto al cambio climático argumentan que vulnera el derecho a la autodeterminación de los pueblos y reclaman compensación de los países más contaminantesVanuatu y los estudiantes del Pacífico: así nació la causa por la justicia climática 
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Vanuatu calls on ICJ to recognize climate change’s harm

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