World’s Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ) led a years-long global campaign to take climate change and human rights to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to get an advisory opinion (AO) – and with success!

On 20 May, after months of intense campaigning by civil society and Vanuatu, States took an important step in the implementation phase of the ICJ climate change advisory opinion by adopting the resolution welcoming and operationalising the ICJ AO.

This is a landmark moment for climate justice. The UN has today not only welcomed the validity of the groundbreaking ICJ ruling, which found States' obligations to combat climate change, but is also committed to taking real action. Let’s put the ICJ’s findings into practice!