The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will begin consideration Monday of a host of proposed penalties the U.N. can implement against countries that defy diktats on protecting the environment. [emphasis, links added]
Activists hope the legal opinion from the ICJ judges will have far-reaching consequences in the fight against “climate change” in a matter that first came before it in 2023, as Breitbart News reported.
But others note the U.N.-backed request for a non-binding advisory opinion will have no impact at all– and it could take the U.N.’s top court months, or even years, to deliver as counties like the U.S. – which does not formally recognize the organization – go their own way.
The ICJ is the United Nations’ top judicial body.
It only takes cases between state actors, meaning countries can be parties to lawsuits and participate in trials, but individuals and corporations cannot.
It has no enforcement mechanism, so those implicated in its rulings often simply ignore its existence.
The hearings at the Peace Palace come days after a bitterly negotiated climate deal at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, which decreed that developed countries must provide at least $300 billion a year by 2035 for climate finance.
The U.N. General Assembly last year adopted a resolution in which it referred two key questions to the ICJ judges, AFP reports.
First, what obligations did states have under international law to protect the Earth’s climate system from greenhouse gas emissions?
Second, what are the legal consequences under these obligations, where states, “by their acts and omissions, have caused significant harm to the climate system and other parts of the environment?”
The second question was also linked to the legal responsibilities of states for harm caused to small, more vulnerable countries and their populations.
Reuters reports climate litigation is on the rise and earlier this year, Europe’s top human rights court ruled that the Swiss government had violated the rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change.
But it also rejected two other cases, pointing to the complexities of the growing wave of climate lawfare.
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What if the developed world simply withdrew their support for the UN, the WHO, and IMF. Most of these globalist institutions have become for too powerful, not to mention their disdain for democracy, capitalism and freedom.
Christiana Figueres the former Executive Secretary for the UN Framework Convention on Climate change once blurted out the real goal of the UN which basically was to change the world economic system that has been in place for 150 years. That being for the most part Captalism in free democratic countries All globalists have a thirst for world governance. They hate the words Capitalism, Democracy Sovereignty and freedom.
I can’t imagine the likes of Antonio Guterres as the head of the world government or how about Klaus Schwab. Guterres not long ago suggested that the world was boiling despite the fact that we are in one of the coldest periods in the history of the world. The UN receives much of their funding from member countries and can be shut down immediately by simply withdrawing from their little radical left wing organization.
If only that would happen. Needs to start with the US who kicks the den of vipers out of NYC and withdraw from this organization controlled by left-wing totalitarian states.
We have more reasons to kick the United Nations Out of America more then ever and moved the whole rotten lot to Beijing and ripped up the whole Paris Agreement as they want to do our U.S. Constitution