"I choose my words carefully when I say that this may well be the most consequential case in the history of humanity."
"The reason why I am truly tearful is this is without a doubt, the most far-reaching, the most comprehensive and the most consequential legal opinion we've ever had."
One decade after the Paris Agreement's adoption by 194 countries, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on 23 July that creates enforceable legal obligations for states to respond to the climate crisis. The court held that nations must regulate activities causing greenhouse-gas emissions and that states may need to oversee businesses for harms caused beyond their borders. The court recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as fundamental to all other human rights and endorsed intergenerational equity as a guiding principle for climate obligations. Vanuatu's envoy and former negotiator Christiana Figueres called the ruling historically consequential and far-reaching.
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