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How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest court. And won

July 30, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Yet it was here in this Dutch city that Prasad and a small group of Pacific islanders in their bright shirts and shell necklaces last week gathered before the UN’s top court to witness an opinion they had dreamt up when they were at university in ... <a title="How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest court. And won" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/how-pacific-students-took-their-climate-fight-to-the-worlds-highest-court-and-won/" aria-label="Read more about How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest court. And won">Read more</a>

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ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call to hold governments accountable?

July 23, 2025

By Jamie Tahana in The Hague for RNZ Pacific In 2019, a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific, frustrated at the slow pace with which the world’s governments were moving to address the climate crisis, had an idea — they would take the world’s governments to court. They arranged a ... <a title="ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call to hold governments accountable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/icj-climate-crisis-ruling-will-worlds-top-court-back-pacific-led-call-to-hold-governments-accountable/" aria-label="Read more about ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call to hold governments accountable?">Read more</a>