In this short blog post, the executive assistant of the Climate Change Law Specialist Group IUCN WCEL – Aditi Shetye shares her thoughts and analysis on the 77th United Nations General Assembly held in September 2022 in the context of climate action and high-level discussions by parties and their national delegations’ on Vanuatu’s International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion (ICJAO) initiative. This blog is written for the Climate Change Law Network and World’s Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ).

The World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), IUCN and University of Oslo, hosted an International Environmental Law Conference in Oslo in October 2022. WYCJ’s academic team leader, Aditi Shetye and team member, Manon Rouby were invited to present WYCJ’s ICJAO initiative

On a hot summer day in July, WYCJ co-hosted a Conversation on the ICJ, Climate Change and Human Rights - the Pacific and the Caribbean connect at the Geneva Graduate Institute. The event was kindly sponsored by Sidley Austin LLP.

On the 10th of June, WYCJ hosted the side event ‘Keeping 1.5 alive, a global youth-led campaign for climate justice’ in Bonn in the framework of the UN climate change negotiations. The event highlighted the potential of requesting an ICJ Advisory Opinion and galvanized young people to get involved in the WYCJ campaign. The event was hosted in collaboration with Youth & Environment Europe, the largest environmental youth organization in Europe, and the Jonge Klimaatbeweging, the largest youth climate organization in the Netherlands.

A global alliance of civil society groups, representing over 1500 civil society organisations in 130 countries, has launched today to support a powerful new climate justice initiative by the Government of Vanuatu to take the human rights impacts of climate change to the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice.

At the Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Heads of Government indicated their support for the ICJAO Campaign.

This event is the third in a series of four global webinars being held over 2021/2022 to consider a range of issues concerning the value of such a case, what to ask the court, how to win the case and how the outcome could be implemented.

World’s Youth for Climate Justice has joined the SME Climate Hub, as part of the UN’s Race to Zero. WYCJ is very committed to contributing to cutting global emissions, and is also cognisant about reducing its own carbon footprint