UN grants International Court of Justice power to rule on countries' climate obligations.

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution proposed by Vanuatu to seek an opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on what legal obligations nations are under to protect climate systems and people affected by climate change. The resolution was co-sponsored by 132 countries and will seek the ICJ’s opinion on what countries’ legal obligations are to protect current and future generations from climate change. Vanuatu, which has net-zero carbon emissions, is consistently ranked as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change.