On 28 January 2026, the District Court of The Hague ruled that the Netherlands had failed to protect residents of Bonaire, a Dutch overseas territory in the Caribbean that is highly exposed to climate ...

The hearing in The Hague offers long-denied accountability for thousands of killings, but ending impunity must begin in the Philippines. As world institutions wobble, The Hague has unexpectedly become ...

The once quiet workhorse of climate policy, the humble tree, is now headline material, fuelling political fights and finding itself at the very root of a legal battle over our climate future ...

The rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study 1 that tackles one of the hottest debates among climate scientists.

Vanuatu urges the U.N. to support a landmark International Court of Justice climate opinion that says governments have legal ...

Scholars of international law, natural resources professionals and Indigenous advocates gathered on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., for ...

The grave consequences of climate change are likely to prompt a renegotiation of some of the fundamentals of international ...

Amnesty International on Friday warned that recent flooding in Mozambique underscores widening global inequalities in climate responsibility, as major emitting states scale back environmental ...

The case shows that climate change is a fundamental human rights violation—and the victory of Bonaire, a Dutch territory, could open the door for similar lawsuits globally.

Professor Patel, Vice-Chancellor of India’s Rashtriya Raksha University and a sitting member of the United Nations International Law Commission, said three landmark advisory opinions from the ...

Even as the US government has halted a wide range of initiatives to curb carbon emissions, efforts to combat climate change ...

Climate change affects your clients, your practice and your professional duties. Use these examples and checklists to understand how climate risks might impact your legal practice.