Tag: Advisory Opinion
Looking for an African perspective on the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion – Climate Law Blog
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Africa has the lowest per capita greenhouse...
Cooperation Without Justice? On the Elusive Differentiation of Responsibilities in the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion – Climate Law Blog
Climate change is both a global crisis that binds humanity to a shared fate – a...
From Sidelines to Center Stage: Conferences of the Parties (COPs) as Legal Playmakers – Climate Law Blog
The trilogy of climate advisory opinions from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea...
International Law’s Administrative Law Turn and the Paris Agreement – Climate Law Blog
In the recent Advisory Opinion on States’ Obligations in respect of Climate Change (AO, 2025) various...
A Right to Defend the Environment: Legal Protection for Environmental Advocacy in the IACtHR’s Climate Advisory Opinion – Climate Law Blog
As the world faces an escalating triple planetary crisis – climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution...
Epistemic Authority and the Right to Science in AO-32/25: Legal Foundations for the Integration of Traditional Knowledge in the Inter-American System – Climate Law Blog
Among the various legal instruments aimed at protecting human rights in the face of the climate emergency, few require as much interpretative effort as...
The Evasion of Historical Responsibility? Colonialism, Temporality and Reparative Justice in the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion – Climate Law Blog
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ’s) advisory opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate...
Closing the Silences: Using the ICJ’s Interpretive Method to Read Its Climate Opinion – Climate Law Blog
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ’s) Advisory Opinion on Climate Change arrived with force. Given its...
Can Africa Still Drill? What the ICJ Climate Opinion Means for Oil and Gas Exploration in Africa – Climate Law Blog
In July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) adopted its advisory opinion on climate change....
Statehood in the Climate Crisis: The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion and the Presumption of State Continuity – Climate Law Blog
More than two years after the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 77/276, the International...
