The top UN court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out ...

Not all of these impacts can be pinned solely on climate change, said Christina Shaw, CEO of the Vanuatu Environmental ...

Legal action on climate change has become a global phenomenon, with lawsuits launched against governments and corporate interests in 28 countries so far, according to new research published Thursday.

Legal battles over climate change are already paying off. ... Swedish activist joined other youth climate protesters in front of the US Supreme Court on 2019, demanding action on climate change.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate change, a decision expected to be cited in climate ...

Member states must cooperate to tackle climate change and not take actions that set back environmental protections, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) said in a non-binding advisory ...

The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly ...

"You’re asking us to do a lot of new stuff, aren’t you?" Judge Andrew D. Hurwitz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Juliana v. United States, June 4, 2019. It has been a ...

Activists with environmentalist group Aktion Autofrei (“Action Car-free”) call for the expansion of climate-friendly public transportation by stopping a train loaded with Volkswagen vehicles ...

The court found that climate change is a human rights issue, ... European court rules that climate action is a legal obligation. By Sara Schonhardt | 04/10/2024 06:17 AM EDT .

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On December 12, 2015, the 195 country parties to the United Nations’ climate body adopted the Paris Agreement on climate change. The accord was historic ...