Indigenous Australians Lose Landmark Climate Court Case Against Government

Plaintiffs Pabai Pabai (L) and Paul Kabai (R) said they were devastated by the Federal Court's decision (Credit: AFP)

Indigenous Australians living on a string of climate-threatened islands on Tuesday lost a landmark court bid to hold the government responsible for lacklustre emissions targets.

Scattered through the warm waters off Australia's northernmost tip, the sparsely populated Torres Strait Islands are threatened by seas rising much faster than the global average.