The largest case to be held at the world's top court is underway with climate justice under the spotlight and significant implications for Australia's fossil fuel industry. Climate activists have condemned Australia's submission in the landmark case on climate responsibility as an attempt to dodge responsibility for the worsening climate crisis.
Climate activists demonstrate for climate justice in front of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The NetherlandsThe largest case to be held at the world's top court is underway with climate justice under the spotlight and significant implications for Australia's fossil fuel industry. Climate activists have condemned Australia's submission in the landmark case on climate responsibility as an attempt to dodge responsibility for the worsening climate crisis.
This is Vanuatu's top legal officer, attorney-general Arnold Kiel Loughman, opening the hearings in the Hague. "So Australia did argue that the UNFCCC framework and the Paris Agreement are the primary sources of international obligations to address greenhouse gas emissions and government obligations under those treaties or other treaties or under international law should not extend beyond those frameworks. And that position is fundamentally flawed.
The hearings have begun a week after the small island nations condemned a deal made at the UN's COP29 summit to provide AU$460 billion a year in climate finance as insulting and inadequate. "Quite a few years after that, in 2019, 27 law students who decided that if the leaders can't do it across the world, that they want to take this fight themselves of taking the biggest problem of climate change to the world's highest court, especially to seek an advisory opinion on how their human rights can be protected from climate impacts. But not just theirs, but future generations as well.
She told the world court's judges they have the power to seriously affect the lasting impacts of irreversible climate damage.
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