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International Court of Justice Hears Climate Pleas Ahead of Issuing an Advisory Opinion

Inside Climate News · By Bob Berwyn · last updated
Developing countries are asking 15 international judges to clarify the legal obligations of rich nations whose high emissions have driven the greatest warming.

By Bob Berwyn

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—A steel-gray sky hung over the climate proceedings at the International Court of Justice this month, evoking the shadows World War II cast over the negotiators who met here in 1946 to try to establish global legal norms that could bring a peaceful future to a world that had, just a few years before, been tearing itself apart.

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