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climate vulnerable nation takes the world to court over emissions
plan in northwest Alaska is in line with the U.S.’ global climate commitments, according to Wewerinke-Singh.
“It’s advice to all U.N. member states, without any exceptions. States cannot make excuses,” she said in an interview.
Still, there were lingering concerns that the world’s two biggest emitters — the U.S. and China — hadn’t publicly committed to supporting Vanuatu’s motion. The two countries have historically resisted any efforts to be held legally liable for the extreme weather events caused by climate change.
And while it’s true that some countries don’t pay as much attention to international law as others, the opinion is still expected to raise pressure on all nations to do more under global commitments such as the landmark climate agreement reached in Paris in 2015.
“The Paris Agreement needs a boost,” said Wewerinke-Singh. “”It would be suicidal to say we can do without” institutions such as the annual climate change talks — known as COP — held annually to build on the deal.
Vanuatu, meanwhile, has shown that it can punch well above its weight when it comes to climate diplomacy. In 1991, it led calls to set up a loss and damage facility, something that would only reach fruition more than 30 years later, and was the founder of the Alliance of Small Island States, a powerful negotiating bloc in climate talks.
Its influence though is no quirk of fate, but rather because it has no other choice. The country was ranked the world’s most at-risk for natural hazards by the U.N. The bulk of which have been made worse from climate change. Earlier this month, two Category 4 cyclones hit the island within the span of 72 hours.
The push to get an advisory opinion from the ICJ originated from a group of Pacific island law students in 2019, before spiraling into the more than 100 backers today. The aim is to draw on legal obligations across international agreements, not just the Paris Agreement, but also maritime rules and human rights covenants.
This gives clarification on the “obligations of all states, including all major emitters past president and future,” said Kristin Tilley, climate ambassador for Australia, which is co-sponsoring the resolution and is aiming to host COP31 alongside island states. “Very clearly Pacific Island leaders are seeing this initiative as driving global momentum towards 1.5 degrees.”
A climate vulnerable nation takes the world to court over emissions
After the world failed to boost targets for cutting emissions at last year’s climate summit, the Volcanic atoll in the South Pacific is turning to international law.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/30/world/vanuatu-climate-change-world-court/
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Vanuatu sees this historic Resolution as the beginning of a new era in multilateral climate cooperation, one that is more fully focused on upholding the rule of international law and an era that places human rights and intergenerational equity at the forefront of climate decision-making. The nations of the world asked a critical set of questions on climate obligations to the UN’s International Court of Justice. Importantly, and the Court will tell us what the legal consequences are for States that disregard these laws, and cause climate and environmental harm. I thank the Governments and Non Government Organizations from around the world that stand with Vanuatu for Climate Justice. /Hon Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau, Prime Minister of Vanuatu
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Vanuatu sees this historic Resolution as the beginning of a new era in multilateral climate cooperation, one that is more fully focused on upholding the rule of international law and an era that places human rights and intergenerational equity at the forefront of climate decision-making. The nations of the world asked a critical set of questions on climate obligations to the UN’s International Court of Justice. Importantly, and the Court will tell us what the legal consequences are for States that disregard these laws, and cause climate and environmental harm. I thank the Governments and Non Government Organizations from around the world that stand with Vanuatu for Climate Justice. /Hon Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau, Prime Minister of Vanuatu
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@vanuatu_government, thank you so much for joining the climate dialogue.
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@vanuatu_government Thanks for your answer !
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a great initiative for the vanuatu Govt for punishing the climate pollutants
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It's time for action and less talk... Those who harm the planet should be held accountable
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Everyone should be accountable to the climate
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The global south should take most of the global north to the court. The global south is and has been vulnerable for years now.
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@sameen_shahid I agree with you!
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There should be an internationally recognized way to hold this emitters accountable for the damages caused to the environment as a whole.
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Everyone who threatens the climate need to to sued and held accountable.
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