IEF member Monica Maghami has just published on 5 February 2025 an excellent paper "New Global Governance and Overarching Frameworks: Reimagining the Rule of Law, AI and ESG for the Betterment of the World" in the Denning Law Journal.
International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change
Submissions 2024
On 29 March 2023, the UN General Assembly requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to provide an Advisory Opinion on States' obligations regarding climate change. The ICJ has now, for the first time in history, the mandate to clarify the legal obligations of States with regard to climate change under multiple sources of international law.
The number of multilateral environmental agreements has multiplied over several decades, creating a fragmented assemblage of hard and soft law that is often difficult to apply, particularly at the national level. A group of 80 experts from 40 countries has prepared a draft Global Pact for the Environment that assembles and codifies the main principles of international environmental law, supplemented based on current challenges.
