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‘Historic’ ruling on climate change by World Court: What to expect

Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's climate change minister, left, and Arnold Kiel Loughman, Vanuatu's attorney general, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, in December 2024 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is preparing to hand down its first-ever opinion on climate change, seen by many as a historic moment in international law.

Judges have waded through tens of thousands of pages of written submissions and heard two weeks of oral arguments during the ICJ’s biggest-ever case.

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