The United Nations General Assembly will vote whether to ask the world's top court to define the obligations of states to combat climate change, a legal opinion that could drive countries to take stronger measures and clarify international law
that want the international legal system to deliver climate justice.
Vanuatu Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu said the resolution has 121 country co-sponsors, allowing it to pass with the simple majority if no other country raises objections. As of Tuesday, Vanuatu diplomats were still trying to win support from China and the U.S., or at least to convince the two biggest greenhouse gas emitting countries not to raise objections.
This month, U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change, John Kerry, said in response to a Reuters query the U.S. supported efforts to address the issue of loss and damage, the costs incurred from climate-fueled weather extremes or impacts, but that Vanuatu "jumped ahead" by trying to bring the question to the UN court.
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