The top UN court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out ...

Not all of these impacts can be pinned solely on climate change, said Christina Shaw, CEO of the Vanuatu Environmental ...

Legal battles over climate change are already paying off. ... Swedish activist joined other youth climate protesters in front of the US Supreme Court on 2019, demanding action on climate change.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate change, a decision expected to be cited in climate ...

The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly ...

Our judicial system is increasingly in the front line in the fight to avert catastrophic climate change. Last year, in the so ...

The students’ filings are part of a global surge in legal action to address the climate crisis. ... the number of climate-change related legal cases more than doubled between 2015 and 2021.

Legal action on climate change has become a global phenomenon, with lawsuits launched against governments and corporate interests in 28 countries so far, according to new research published Thursday.

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 ...

But legal experts say it could inspire similar legal strategies outside Europe and put added pressure on the U.S. to adopt stronger measures to combat climate change. Tuesday's ruling involved ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On December 12, 2015, the 195 country parties to the United Nations’ climate body adopted the Paris Agreement on climate change. The accord was historic ...