Friends of the Initiative
Notable Supporters
Chair of The Elders, Former President - Ireland, and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
“I absolutely support an ICJ Advisory Opinion and I hope it will raise awareness on climate justice.”
“I would invite those who are involved in the AO to take a very broad view of the injustices that need a climate justice approach.”
MARY ROBINSON
President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad, Member of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee, UN Sustainable Development Goal Advocate
HINDOU OUMAROU IBRAHIM
XIYE BASTIDA
Youth climate justice activist, Organizer of Fridays For Future, Co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative
PROFESSOR JORGE E. VINUALES
Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge
PROFESSOR PAT PARENTEAU
Vermont Law School
PROFESSOR MORGAN WAIRIU
Solomon Islands
PROFESSOR ROGER S. CLARK
Board of Governors Professor Rutgers Law School
Professor, Melbourne Law School, Australia, Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2024-2028), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law
“The International Court of Justice is well-placed to advise the United Nations on legal questions relating to climate change. To paraphrase a Judge from earlier environmental litigation at the Court, “If not now, when?” (Weeramantry J, Request for an Examination of the Situation (Nuclear Tests) [1995] ICJ Reps 288, 362).”
MARGARET YOUNG
Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Climate Change and Co-host of the podcast Outrage and Optimism.
DR. DAVID BOYD
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
PROFESSOR DONALD K. ANTON
Honorary Professor at the Australian National University College of Law, Adjunct Professor Griffith University Law Futures Centre
PROFESSOR RANDALL S. ABATE
Monmouth University
‘Climate justice is the fight for your future. Keep up the great work and a just transition will await you on the horizon.’
International Lawyer
Future generations will look back and recognize the immense contribution of this global campaign to secure an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ. Assertively, this initiative recognizes the need for clarification of the legal obligations of states to protect the rights of current, and future generations, from the adverse effects of climate change, and reveals an understanding of the pertinence and importance of the advisory function of the ICJ. Their vision should be everyone’s vision.
EDGARDO SOBENES
Micheal Fakhri
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Food
“An ICJ Advisory Opinion would be an opportunity to galvanize an international response to climate change. An ICJ Advisory Opinion would also clarify the geographic and generational inequities and responsibilities created by climate change."
Honorary Supporters
We thank our honorary supporters for their extraordinary support and contributions that they have made to the ICJAO campaign and to the WYCJ.
Beatrice Tabangcora
Samoa, University of South Pacific School of Law Academic
“Pacific Island Countries have championed the issue of climate change for generations. Seeing young Pacific Islanders and youth from around the world passionately advocate for the future of our Pacific homes and for our planet gives me hope for tomorrow. It is an honour to support the ICJAO Initiative.”
Dr. Kate Dewes
Disarmament Consultant
“This is a great initiative inspired by the case we ordinary anti-nuclear campaigners from New Zealand and around the world took in the 1990s to the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the legal status of nuclear weapons. I am delighted to see this project to save our precious planet being led by Pacific Island youth and future leaders in the movement .”
Atty. Antonio A. Oposa Jnr
Pioneering environmental advocate and creative litigator
Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner, Philippines
Professor David Foreman
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Justin Rose
Adjunct Professor, School of Law, University of the South Pacific
Member, World Commission on Environmental Law"
"I wholeheartedly support World’s Youth for Climate Justice campaign for an ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate and Human Rights. The international law of climate change will only reach its goals when the inertia of the present is finally replaced by the ambition and optimism now being voiced by tomorrow’s leaders. It is a source of great pride that former students of mine are among the convenors of this new global movement."
Dr. Tolu Muliaina
Lecturer, University of the South Pacific, Samoa
Co-founding member of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change
“As always, the PISFCC and WYCJ have my strongest support.”