The latest advisory opinion by the United Nations’ International Court of Justice expands the legal framework for combating ...

A growing corpus of legal action, grounded in medical and scientific evidence on the harmful effects of environmental ...

International law is starting to reflect a growing global consensus on the need to recognise the climate effects of armed ...

What role can the medical profession play in helping to attribute blame? In October the Lancet Countdown on Health and ...

Ten years after the world agreed on an historic framework for climate action, the very features that made the Paris agreement ...

After oral arguments it appears the Supreme Court will strike down President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs 6-3.

The Australian Human Rights Commission is calling for urgent action from government and business to address the escalating impacts of climate change on Australians’ human rights.Launching its first ...

Medical and scientific evidence is proving invaluable in holding public authorities accountable for the impact of unlawful ...

Amid rising geopolitical tensions, pressure to comply with climate obligations increasingly comes from courts. Earlier this year, both the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American ...

Youth representatives of Brazil SGI (BSGI) and the Soka Amazon Institute, a Soka Gakkai affiliate, participate in the Youth20 ...

This was supposed to be the year that global greenhouse gas emissions reach their peak levels in order to limit warming to ...

The fate of the agreement will take center stage at the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, which opens on Thursday in Brazil with a summit of heads of state. Signed in 2015, the treaty has ...