In the world’s biggest climate case, The International Court of Justice is considering what legal obligations countries have to protect the climate.
This article was originally published by Grist. The world’s biggest climate case begins at The Hague in the Netherlands this week. Oral arguments will be heard by the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, which will consider what obligations United Nations member states have under international law to protect the planet from greenhouse gas emissions for future generations.
Slowly, the group built enough diplomatic support to get on the agenda at the U.N. General Assembly, and later, built such a widespread backing that the Assembly approved the resolution calling for an ICJ advisory opinion on climate change by consensus. “How the law is shaped from here on depends on this moment, depends on the ICJ,” said Vidal Prashad, one of the student campaigners based in Fiji.
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