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Handful of Countries Responsible For Climate Crisis, Top Court Told
Wednesday December 4, 2024. 12:30 PM , from Slashdot
The court heard how Pacific island states such as Vanuatu were bearing the brunt of rising sea levels and increasingly frequent and severe disasters. 'We find ourselves on the frontlines of a crisis we did not create,' Regenvanu said. The hearing is the culmination of years of campaigning by a group of Pacific island law students and diplomacy spearheaded by Vanuatu. In March last year the UN general assembly unanimously approved a resolution calling on the ICJ to provide an advisory opinion on what obligations states have to tackle climate change and what the legal consequences could be if they fail to do so. Over the next two weeks, the court will hear statements from 98 countries, including wealthy developed states with the greatest historical responsibility for the climate emergency, such as the UK and Russia, and states that have contributed very little to global greenhouse gas emissions but stand to bear the brunt of their impact, including Bangladesh and Sudan as well as Pacific island countries. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/04/0047257/handful-of-countries-responsible-for-climate-crisis...
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