(23 Jul 2025)
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The Hague, Netherlands
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Molly Quell, The Associated Press:
"So a coalition of small island nations spearheaded by Vanuatu has made a push to ask the UN’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, to weigh in on the legal responsibilities that countries have to combat climate change. Countries like Vanuatu are concerned that their homelands could disappear under rising sea levels or could be rendered uninhabitable by increasing global temperatures. The questions the judges have been tasked with is first: what countries have to do to combat climate change and second: what obligations high emitting states like the United States or Russia are obliged to do to assist countries like Vanuatu who have borne the brunt of the industrial revolution. Typically questions in international law deal with nations. Two countries have a dispute with one another but an issue like climate change, it transcends national boundaries so judges at the court have a difficult question to determine whether or not countries on the other side of the world who are bearing the negative impacts of climate change are owed something from the countries like the United States and Russia who are enjoying the benefits of burning fossil fuels."
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Efate Island, Vanuatu – 19 July 2025
2. Various aerial shots of sinking buildings
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Efate Island, Vanuatu – 19 July 2025
3. Various aerial shots of an eroding coastline
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Efate Island, Vanuatu – 20 July 2025
4. Various of dead coral
STORYLINE:
The International Court of Justice will issue an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and what consequences they may face if they don’t.
The case, led by Vanuatu and backed by more than 130 countries, is seen as a potential turning point in international climate law.
The opinion won’t be legally binding, but could help shape future efforts to hold major emitters accountable and secure the funding and action small island nations need to adapt or survive.
It comes after decades of frustration for Pacific nations who’ve watched their homelands disappear.
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