Climate litigation seems to be the next big thing.
Is the UN or this court in The Hague doing anything useful at all? It looks like they’re all just partners in extortion & blackmail.
The hearings at the Peace Palace come days after a bitterly negotiated climate deal at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, which decreed developed countries must provide at least $300 billion a year by 2035 for climate finance.
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The U.N. General Assembly last year adopted a resolution in which it referred two key questions to the ICJ judges, AFP reports.
First, what obligations did states have under international law to protect the Earth’s climate system from greenhouse gas emissions?
Second, what are the legal consequences under these obligations, where states, “by their acts and omissions, have caused significant harm to the climate system and other parts of the environment?”
The second question was also linked to the legal responsibilities of states for harm caused to small, more vulnerable countries and their populations.
Reuters reports climate litigation is on the rise and earlier this year, Europe’s top human rights court ruled that the Swiss government had violated the rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change.
But it also rejected two other cases, pointing to the complexities of the growing wave of climate lawfare.