The Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau, said ambition towards achieving the 1.5-degree target “is still far from what is needed”, and an ICJ advisory opinion could provide clarity that would benefit global efforts to address the climate crisis and further boost cooperation. But festering climate injustice feeds divisions and threatens to paralyze global climate action,” he warned. “The climate crisis can only be overcome through cooperation – between peoples, cultures, nations, generations. The UN chief stressed that now is the time for climate action and climate justice. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) further showed that limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, is achievable - but time is running out. Guterres pointed to the latest climate science, unveiled this month, which confirmed that humans are responsible for virtually all global heating over the past 200 years. “If and when given, such an opinion would assist the General Assembly, the UN and Member States, to take the bolder and stronger climate action that our world so desperately needs,” he said. ![]() Speaking ahead of the vote, UN Secretary-General António Guterres noted that the Court’s advisory opinions have tremendous importance. Although its advisory opinions are not legally binding, they carry legal authority and moral weight. The ICJ, also known as the World Court, is the UN’s principal judicial organ.
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