Climate Change An Existential Threat To Humanity, Urges Action – ICJ By Cecilia Russell Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/07/climate-change-existential-threat-to-humanity-says-icj/ THE HAGUE & JOHANNESBURG, Jul 23 2025 (IPS) - The case was “unlike any that have previously come before the court,” President of the International Court of Justice Judge Yuji Iwasawa said while reading the court’s unanimous advisory opinion outlining the legal obligations of United Nations member states with regard to climate change. This case was not simply a “legal problem” but “concerned an existential problem of planetary proportions that imperils all forms of life and the very health of our planet,” Iwasawa said. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.