Date: 24 July 2025  

Time: 17.30 CEST

Format: Online/Hybrid 

Location:  The Carlton Ambassador, The Hague (tbc)

Registration: here

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its long-awaited Advisory Opinion (AO) on the obligations of States in respect of climate change.

This historic ruling follows years of coordinated legal mobilisation by Pacific Island students, the world’s youth, lawyers, and allied States, culminating in an extraordinary global engagement with 96 States and 11 international organisations participating in the oral hearings.

Building on a growing jurisprudence that includes the 2023 Advisory Opinion by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and the 2024 Opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), the ICJ AO has the potential to be a defining moment for climate justice and international law.

This webinar, co-convened by the Government of Vanuatu, the Government of Costa Rica (tbc), World’s Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ), Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC), will bring together high-level and authoritative legal and political voices to offer a rapid, top-line analysis of the AO’s implications.

The session will focus on seizing the narrative in the immediate aftermath of the opinion’s delivery, ensuring a clear human rights and justice-oriented understanding of the Court’s opinion reaches global audiences.