- Symposium
- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
Strengthening International Climate Obligations beyond Paris
14.08.2025
Phillip Paiement
Corina Heri
The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change concludes a 15-month period of rapid developments in the crystallization of international law as it pertains...
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- Symposium
- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
Custom, Entrenchment, Interpretation
05.08.2025
The vision of international climate change law is as simple as it is unassailable: Keeping the world a liveable place for humans all over the planet. As modest as this...
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- Symposium
- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
Rising to the Occasion
04.08.2025
Andrej Lang
Denise Koecke
Climate change litigation has, at last, reached the World Court, with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issuing its highly anticipated Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect...
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- Symposium
- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
The ICJ and the UN Climate Regime
04.08.2025
The 2-hour reading of the climate change advisory opinion by ICJ president, judge Yuji Iwasawa, on 23 July 2025 was a historical moment. The court had put forward its legal...
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- Symposium
- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
Climate Change at the Forefront of the Structural Transformation of International Law
04.08.2025
Khaled El Mahmoud
Jannika Jahn
Moritz Vinken
The ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate protection has far-reaching implications – both for climate action and for the entirety of (environmental) international law. The Court was faced with a complex...
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The Paris Agreement’s Crucial Test
15.05.2025
Harsh Mahaseth
Aryaman Keshav
Humans survive. Whether it is pandemics, volcanic eruptions, or the ice age; humans endure and survive. With the effects of global warming at the door, human survival is once again...
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- Symposium
- Climate Change Conference COP29
Carbon Capture, Storage and Removal
15.11.2024
To meet the climate targets of the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel use must be phased out. However, oil, gas, and coal remain primary energy sources for many countries and will...
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All That Glitters Is Not Gold(fish)
18.07.2022
At the twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) (12-17 June 2022), WTO Members reached a landmark Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (hereinafter: “the Agreement”). Pending ratification, the...
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