Pacific Islands students target U.N. court as key weapon to fight climate change

Vishal Prasad, a campaigner with the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change from Fiji, poses outside the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 16, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

In the shadow of the United Nations' towering headquarters in New York City, law student Solomon Yeo from an island nation in the South Pacific is taking in what he describes as a “surreal moment.”

Less than three years ago, he was chatting with fellow law students at the University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu about how they might someday help transform how the world tackles climate change.