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State responsibility for climate must include impacts caused by armed conflict, Palestine tells top court
Alongside Mexico, the state of Palestine, represented by a team of counsels including Singapore-based international law expert Dr Nilüfer Oral, highlighted often-ignored linkages between inter-state conflict and climate justice.
Policy & Finance
Ecocide: Should destroying nature be an international crime?
As world warms and extreme weather disasters multiply, Pacific island states join fight to make ecocide a crime under ICC.
Ending the damaging price war may require fundamental reform. How did the industry get here, and how can it recover?
Carbon & Climate
Philippines, Bangladesh ask top court to recognise climate harm as a violation of international law
Indonesia, on the other hand, cautioned at the landmark hearings in The Hague that international human rights law does not yet create obligations to climate protection and any state obligation should only be limited to its own population.
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Can Kashmir’s new government tackle environmental issues?
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Food & Agriculture
From farmers to importers: how Filipino rice growing went wrong
Policy & Finance
In data: Indigenous Filipinos lack the rights to stop land grabs
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Policy & Finance
Donald Trump is president. What does it mean for climate change?
5 November 2024
Policy & Finance
India to Italy: a trail of broken dreams, loss and abuse
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Policy & Finance
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