Sovereign states are not only responsible for tackling fossil fuel damage, they have to make redress, according to a recent ...

Countries have a legal obligation to combat climate change. The challenge for health is to make sure that they comply. Udani ...

The ruling was the result of years of efforts by activists and small island nations and initiated by Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change, a group of young Pacific Islanders facing the ...

The UN’s top court says countries that fail to protect the planet from climate change could be in violation of international ...

One of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the fallout from climate change has won a landmark legal battle, giving countries new ammunition to pursue some of the planet’s biggest emitters.

Two years later, after the EPA reviewed studies by the National Climate Assessment, the National Research Council and the UN ...

Activist-led court rulings like this should never be treated ... Ralph Regenvanu, its minister of climate change adaptation, said Vanuatu would take the ICJ ruling to the UN General Assembly and ...

The EPA has proposed scrapping the Endangerment Finding — the legal foundation for regulating greenhouse gases. If finalized, ...

The nonbinding opinion by the International Court of Justice is likely to determine the course of climate action across the ...

In the time of global cooperation on climate change, the Trump administration stands out as a pariah. At present, the U.S.

The top UN court on Wednesday described climate change as an "urgent and existential threat", as it handed down a landmark ruling on the legal obligations of countries to prevent it. "The consequences ...

Vanuatu’s ICJ win has rewritten the rulebook, and Australia’s $14.5 billion fossil subsidies may now come with legal strings attached.