(23 Jul 2025)
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The Hague – 23 July 2025
1. Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s minister for climate change, and other officials arriving for a press conference after the ICJ Advisory hearing on Climate change
2. Mid of Regenvanu
3. Cutaway media
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s minister for climate change:
"Today’s ruling is a landmark moment and it has confirmed that we vunerable nations have been saying and we have known for so long that states do have legal obligations to act in climate changes, and these obligations are granted in international law, they are granted in human rights law, and they are granted in… to protect our environment, which we heard the court refer to so much. And these aren’t aspirational ideas, as some, some would have it. The court has just confirmed they are binding duties. And the advisory opinion has clarified the legal consequences for states which fail to discharge these obligations."
5. Wide shot of speakers
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s minister for climate change:
"We’re now going to take the ICJ ruling, this one back to the United Nation’s General Assembly . And pursue a resolution to support the implementation of the decision at the UNGA (United Nation General Assembly). The implementation of this decision , we hope will set a new status quo, and provide the structural changes needed to give our current and future generations hope for a healthy planet and a sustainable future."
7. Cutaway cameramen
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Vishal Prasad, director of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change:
"I think I’m completely overjoyed with what the outcome of the opinion has been, and we’re still trying to digest it, as someone said all might be in a state of shock at the moment with what the court has given us, and I think it sends a strong message for all of us and to young people everywhere that there is still hope and there is a chance and there’s a reason for us to keep fighting because as we said that this advisory is a tool for climate justice and boy, has the ICJ has the ICJ given us a strong tool to carry on the fight for climate justice and, so we’re very glad ."
9. Wide of speakers
10. Mid of speakers leaving
STORYLINE:
The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion says countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and nations harmed by its effects could be entitled to reparations.
Advocates immediately cheered the International Court of Justice opinion on nations’ obligations to tackle climate change and the consequences they may face if they don’t. Notably, the court said a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right. That paves the way for other legal actions, including states returning to the ICJ to hold each other to account as well as domestic lawsuits.
Vanuatu’s minister for climate change said: "Today’s ruling is a landmark moment and it has confirmed that we vulnerable nations have been saying and we have known for so long that states do have legal obligations to act in climate changes, and these obligations are granted in international law, they are granted in human rights law, and they are granted in… to protect our environment, which we heard the court refer to so much. And these aren’t aspirational ideas, as some, some would have it. The court has just confirmed they are binding duties. And the advisory opinion has clarified the legal consequences for states which failed to discharge these obligations."
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