The top United Nations court has taken up the largest case in its history, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change.

“For more than 50 years, fossil fuel companies have conducted sophisticated disinformation campaigns to obscure their own research showing that burning fossil fuels would drive climate change. This ...

The high court declined to hear a challenge to a major case in which Honolulu is suing energy companies over climate change.

Attorney General Charity Clark said she thinks the oil companies are “running out of tricks,” but still, the lawsuit could go ...

The Supreme Court allowed Honolulu’s lawsuit against oil companies to move forward on Monday. The justices declined without explanation to hear several energy companies’ challenge to a Hawaii ...

Research published in October, opens new tab in Nature Climate Change calculated that about 13% of deaths associated with toxic wildfire smoke during the 2010s could be attributed to the climate ...

Climate law specialist Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala explains. This climate change case started in 2021 when a group of law students lobbied the government of Vanuatu, a tiny South Pacific island nation ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It’s a winter’s day late this century and London is engulfed in a December blizzard, its third of the season.

An island nation has brought a landmark climate change case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This represents a pivotal moment in international law and environmental governance.

In the matter of standing, which addresses whether the youth had the legal right to bring the case, the state argued the youth stories of harm from climate change impacts were not “legally ...

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