A South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis brought “the world's biggest problem to the world's ...

Member states must cooperate to tackle climate change and not take actions that set back environmental protections, the Inter ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has urged states to regulate fossil fuel extraction and exploration, in a landmark ...

“The Government of the Republic of Vanuatu commends the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) on its groundbreaking advisory opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights, issued today in ...

In a landmark climate decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognized that the right to a healthy climate is an ...

It underlined that "the right to a healthy environment" is included among the rights protected by the American Convention on ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Countries are set to vote at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday on a pledge to phase out fossil fuels ...

Decision means that around 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean – including Argentina – must undertake legal ...

Tired of pleading for countries to act on climate change, Vanuatu upped the ante -- it asked the world's highest court if governments were legally obligated to do something about it. "A lot of ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Organization of American States members must take "all necessary measures" to ...

The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate ...

A 70,000-person global study found understanding how events such as fires and floods are linked to climate change may be a ...