Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change

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Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague

July 30, 2025

By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivering a historic opinion last week affirming that states have binding legal obligations to protect the environment from human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. The case, hailed as a ... <a title="Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/climate-justice-victory-at-the-icj-the-student-journey-from-usp-lectures-to-the-hague/" aria-label="Read more about Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague">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>