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What to Know About a Landmark Court Case

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Karen Zraick
5 December 2024 at 16:51
Judges in The Hague are weighing what, exactly, international law requires countries to do about global warming.

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Ralph Regenvanu, left, at a court session in The Hague this week. The hearings are the result of a campaign led by Vanuatu.

U.S. Defends Paris Climate Accord as ‘Best Hope’ at International Court of Justice

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Karen Zraick
4 December 2024 at 18:50
In a landmark international hearing on climate change, a U.S. representative backed the Paris Agreement, but left unanswered questions about U.S. commitments in a Trump presidency.

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Margaret L. Taylor, a legal adviser for the State Department, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

What Can the World’s Top Court Do About Climate Change?

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Marlise Simons
2 December 2024 at 05:02
The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, is beginning landmark hearings on global warming. Here’s a guide.

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Mexico’s Valle de Bravo reservoir this year. The court has been asked what obligations governments have to protect the world’s climate system.

Saudi Arabia and Russia Block Mention of Fossil Fuel Exit in Climate Resolution

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Somini Sengupta
26 November 2024 at 16:19
A handful of oil-producing nations ensured that a United Nations General Assembly resolution on climate change steered clear of a call to transition away from fossil fuels.

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Sultan al-Jaber, the president of the COP28 summit in Dubai last year, center, with other officials. The Dubai summit yielded a resolution that for the first time called for decarbonizing the world’s energy system.

Are All These U.N. Climate Talks Doing Any Good?

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Brad Plumer
26 November 2024 at 12:26
What the U.N. negotiations, known as COP, can (and can’t) do to combat climate change.

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Mukhtar Babayev, an Azerbaijani official and president of the COP29 summit, led the room in applause at the close of negotiations on Sunday.
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