Vanuatu is asking the International Court of Justice to issue an opinion on the rights of present and future generations to be protected from the adverse impacts of climate change. Vanuatu, with a ...

How Vanuatu’s Climate Campaign Could Save the World The tiny island country has pushed the UN and the International Court of Justice to take unprecedented action that could help avert planetary ...

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu wants the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to weigh in the rights of current and future residents to be protected from climate change. During a speech at ...

Tiny island nation lays out big plans for climate change. By Sara Schonhardt | 08/23/2022 06:06 AM EDT . Officials from the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu — composed of roughly 80 islands about ...

Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday won a historic vote at the United Nations that calls on the world’s highest court to establish for the first time the obligations countries have to ...

In the Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomberg profiles Torethy Frank of the island nation Vanuatu. He argues that despite the emphasis Vanuatuan leaders put on climate change, the local inhabitants ...

Facing climate change on an island nation. Vanuatu has a population of about 315,000 people, who live across 13 principal and many smaller islands. Like other Pacific island nations, ...

For the people of Vanuatu, climate change is not a distant threat—it’s here now. Rising seas swallow shorelines, storms batter homes, and entire villages face relocation. Desperate to hold the ...

Vanuatu may be a small country, but it’s thinking big. At COP24, his delegation held a seminar explaining legal options to other nations also vulnerable to climate change-related threats.

Vanuatu’s president, Baldwin Lonsdale, spoke at a United Nations world conference in Sendai, Japan, on March 16, and said the storm was a major setback for the people, virtually wiping out ...

Vanuatu and other South Pacific nations are being forced to spend more money, not only on protecting themselves, but also on keeping their businesses afloat because of climate change. Source: News ...

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu wants the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to weigh in the rights of current and future residents to be protected from climate change. During a speech at ...