Posted on 07/23/2025 12:05:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The ICJ is considered the world's highest court and it has global jurisdiction. Lawyers have told BBC News that the opinion could be used as early as next week, including in national courts outside of the ICJ.
Campaigners and climate lawyers hope the landmark decision will now pave the way for compensation from countries that have historically burned the most fossil fuels and are therefore the most responsible for global warming.
Many poorer countries had backed the case out of frustration, claiming that developed nations are failing to keep existing promises to tackle the growing problem.
But developed countries, including the UK, argued that existing climate agreements, including the landmark UN Paris deal of 2015, are sufficient and no further legal obligations should be imposed.
On Wednesday the court rejected that argument.
Judge Iwasawa Yuji also said that if countries do not develop the most ambitious possible plans to tackle climate change this would constitute a breach of their promises in the Paris Agreement.
He added that broader international law applies, which means that countries which are not signed up to the Paris Agreement - or want to leave, like the US - are still required to protect the environment, including the climate system.
The court's opinion is advisory, but previous ICJ decisions have been implemented by governments, including when the UK agreed to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius last year.
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“Global jurisdiction”
The the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
A UN court ,LOL
Sue China.
The United Nations has no sovereign power. Sorry. Read the charter.
The UN is about as useful as a bag of half washers.
Correct,
The first statement is false.
The ICJ does not have jurisdiction in the UnitedStates.
That will be fun to watch. Fortunately the court has no enforcement power, and the US is not a signatory anyway.
This will be fun!
It has zero jurisdiction here in the US. And should not even be recognized in any way shape or form.
Trump should immediately file suit against China. 18% of the mercury in Oregon is comes from China coal plants.
China and India are first
In fact, I'd say it balances the need for more food....including meat...for the increase in population.
One is cold the other hot; then they switch climates.
As POTUS I would tell all nations - you can accept the ICJ or you can have relations with us, not both.
If you want something AKIN to the ICJ it would be sovereignty centered, with its members selected as direct representatives of each nations sitting chief executive and it would only hear cases agreed to by 100% of the members, could only issue judgements agreed to by 100% of the members and would have no official or unofficial relationship with any other international body, and certainly not the U.N.
Putting judicial robes on is not an act of magic that magically makes the wearers of those robes morally, legally or politically superior in judgement over any person or nation. It is moral and political suicide, as well as irrational and illogical to pretend otherwise.
This should get them enough attention that Rubio will withdraw their visas and ban them from the US.
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