The paramount chief of a volcanic island in Vanuatu said Thursday he was "very impressed" by a global court's declaration ...

One of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the fallout from climate change has won a landmark legal battle, giving ...

In a landmark decision, the International Court of Justice found that polluting countries are now legally obligated to ...

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is living with the daily realities of climate change, as intensifying cyclones, rising ...

Judges with the U.N.’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a ...

Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s Minister for Climate Change speaks to Christiane Amanpour about the landmark climate ruling by the ...

The International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a ...

Vanuatu spearheaded the legal case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which found countries have a duty to protect against the "urgent and existential" threat of a warming planet.

Journalist and author Kel Richards discusses Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister threatening Australia with legal action.

On July 23rd, after two years and an unprecedented number of submissions from governments and international institutions, the ...

The top court of the United Nations on Wednesday declared that countries have an obligation to combat climate change — and ...

Not only is Vanuatu leading the campaign for an ICJ advisory opinion on climate change, but it’s also calling on all states to sign up to a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty to phase down coal ...