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• Google News - Vanuatu + ICJ 481646
• ‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won - Guardian 25.07.25 481861
• The world court joins the fight over climate change - Economist 24.07.25 485284
• 'Whether you win or lose, some fights are worth fighting': The largest ever climate case's unlikely origins - BBC 23.07.25 482079
• The Fight for Climate Justice at the World Court - Julian Aguon, RollingStone 27.06.25 481435
• “Will The Law Rise to Meet Its Highest Calling?” The Historic ICJ Climate Hearings on Climate Justice - CIEL 26.03.25 482085
• Climate Justice: Who Argued What at the ICJ - JusticeInfo 09.01.25 481978
• ICJ weighs legal responsibility for climate change, ‘future of our planet’ - Al Jazeera 14.12.24 481979
• ‘We will not go quietly into the sea’: Hearings for world’s biggest climate case conclude at the ICJ - euronews 13.12.24 481980
• What's been said at the landmark ICJ climate hearings? - DW 07.12.24 481981
• Vanuatu blasts US, China for asking Hague to continue status quo for climate change harms - The Hill 04.12.24 481977
• Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told - Guardian 02.12.24 481973
• Vanuatu urges World Court to recognise climate change harms - Reuters 02.12.24 481983
• Vanuatu calls on ICJ to recognize climate change’s harm - The Hill 02.12.24 481976
• Landmark climate change hearings represent largest ever case before UN world court - UN News 02.12.24 482086
• Vanuatu Leads Recent Initiatives in the International Push for Environmental Justice - Earth Law Center 16.10.24 482081
• ICJ Advisory Opinion and the Future of Climate Responsibility - IISD-SDG 11.09.24 481975
• Vanuatu Makes Opening Argument In International Court’s Climate Change Opinion - Forbes 03.12.24 482083
• Landmark climate change hearings represent largest ever case before UN world court - UN 02.12.24 481974
• 'Frontlines of a Crisis We Did Not Create': Low-Lying Nations Make Climate Case to ICJ - CD 02.12.24 482089
• UN top court opens landmark hearings on climate protection guidelines - France24 02.12.24 482084
• Vanuatu opens the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion proceedings on climate change and human rights - doughty street chambers 02.12.24 481982
• Top UN court to rule on key climate questions - BBC 02.12.24 482090
• “We Need Justice”: Vanuatu Set To Testify Before World Court Following Disappointing COP29 Outcome - Climate in the Courts 25.11.24 482088
• ICJ Advisory Opinion and the Future of Climate Responsibility - IISD 11.09.24 482082
• People-powered climate justice: The quest for legal action at the International Court of Justice - Right Livelihood 23.08.23 492424
• 16 Pacific Island Countries Unite for Climate Justice - Pacific Community 24.07.23 482078
• The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: What Happens Now? - Columbia Climate Law 29.03.23 482062
• Blue Ocean Law represents Vanuatu in Historic Victory as UNGA Adopts Resolution to Seek ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change - Blue Ocean Law 29.03.23 482074
• UN agrees on role for Int’l Court of Justice in climate change - Al Jazeera 29.03.23 482075
• Podcast: The Climate Briefing: The ICJ and climate change - Chatham House 14.03.23 482064
• Vanuatu leads drive to secure an opinion from the International Court of Justice on state responsibilities to turn words in action on climate change - University of Queenslan… 481866
• International court should play key role in delivering climate justice - Amnesty 08.12.22 482067
• Loss and Damage Funding and Vanuatu’s ICJ Initiative: Parallel Processes Relevant to Climate Obligations under International Law - GNHRE 12/22 482125
• Why a chain of tiny Pacific islands wants an international court opinion on responsibility for the climate crisis - Phys Org 04.11.22 482077
• Q&A: Behind the push to bring the climate crisis to court - New Humanitarian 10.10.22 482073
• An ICJ advisory opinion on climate change: Ten questions and answers - C2ES 10/22 482076
• Vanuatu Becomes First Country to Back Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty - EnergyMix 9/22 481401
• From Vanuatu law school to the Hague: the fight to recognise climate harm in international law - Guardian 20.06.22 482063
• Island states back Vanuatu’s quest for climate justice at the UN - Climate Home News 24.05.22 482066
• Thousands of civil society organisations call on countries to support Vanuatu climate justice initiative - Climate Network 05.05.22 482061
• Countdown to the ICJ's landmark Climate Change Advisory Opinion: A recap of key arguments - DLA Piper 481863