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🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
July 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The International Court of Justice has issued a blockbuster advisory opinion on climate change (journal.un.org/en/the-hague...).

How can this opinion be enforced? This article offers some answers:

"The World Court's Enforcement Dilemma--And How to Solve It"

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
July 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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New @recieljournal.bsky.social: Bastiaan Klerk analyzes the ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, focusing on the treatment of the relationship between UNCLOS and the Paris Agreement. Must-read as we await more climate change advisory opinions in 2025!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Why Should a Strict Liability Regime be Adopted for Deep-Seabed Mining Contractors? | by Yavuz Arda Yakut
Why Should a Strict Liability Regime be Adopted for Deep-Seabed Mining Contractors?
Factual Background Deep-seabed mining (“DSM”) is a frontier industry that aims to mine critical minerals, including cobalt and nickel. DSM on the international seabed, the so-called “Area,” is regulat...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Jorge E. Viñuales, Member of the Institute of International Law, Counsel and Advocate for Vanuatu and MSG: "The environment is not an abstraction but represents the living space, the quality of life and the very health of human beings, including generations unborn."
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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Professor Jorge E Vinuales at the ICJ hearing: He highlights that in 1969, it was established that states have a general obligation to ensure activities within their control do not harm the territories of other states, which was then argued in relation to nuclear activities.
December 2, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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New research: How do lawyers help states & NGOs seek advisory opinions from the ICJ? Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Jorge E. Viñuales, and Julian Aguon explain with a case study of climate change. #UpholdingIL #EnvironmentalLaw
 bit.ly/3RujWfA
December 7, 2023 at 5:05 PM
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Read and learn from the answers by participants in ICJ Advisory proceeding on climate change - slightly worried that several interventions are so good that they pre-empt any exam question on the issue. Please do read the IUCN WCEL answers. www.icj-cij.org/index.php/ca...
Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change 
www.icj-cij.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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At #ClimateICJAO, 96 States and 11 international organizations gave oral statements on States’ duty of due diligence to prevent harm to the environment—and what are the legal consequences of breaching those obligations.

Our summary of their statements is now online.

#ICJ #climate #climatechange
Summary report 2–13 December 2024
enb.iisd.org
December 16, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Very helpful overview at @justsecurity.org from @cohelongo.bsky.social on the #ICJ climate change advisory proceedings (echoing some of the excellent insights that she shared during our ESIL Interest Group webinar last Monday). www.justsecurity.org/105917/inter...
An Interim Report on the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion
The landmark proceeding explores State obligations under international law, the Paris Agreement, and human rights in climate change.
www.justsecurity.org
December 21, 2024 at 9:53 PM