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Does the World Court’s Sweeping Climate Opinion Matter? Five Takeaways.

Par :Somini Sengupta
While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate.

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Judge Yuji Iwasawa, president of the International Court of Justice, read out the court’s climate opinion on Wednesday in The Hague.
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Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change

Par :Karen Zraick and Marlise Simons
The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague.

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Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s climate change minister, in The Hague on Wednesday.
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