The UNGA resolution on the ICJ AO can strengthen compliance with existing obligations, reinforce good-faith cooperation, advance a just transition. 🌏
We urge all States to engage constructively, support adoption, and protect the resolution’s ambition during negotiations.
1/9. 🚨 #ICJAO UPDATE🚨: Six months ago the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ⚖️ delivered its landmark advisory opinion (AO) 📜 on the obligation of States in regards to #ClimateChange🔥. 👏Now Vanuatu 🇻🇺 has introduced a draft UN resolution to turn words into action!
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🏛️ The world's highest court has spoken: States have binding legal duties regarding the climate crisis.
It's time to turn that clarity into action.
READ our NEW practitioner-led compendium to turn ICJ's words into practical tools: www.wy4cj.org/icj-ao-litig...
The fourth climate advisory opinion, now coming from the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights! 📣
We will be joined by brilliant guest speakers including Jo Hamilton OBE, Poppy Jay, @silereynolds.bsky.social @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social, Jule Schnakenberg @wy4cj.bsky.social... 4/
#IWD2026 #DoughtyStWomen
Join WYCJ and become part of a global movement working towards climate justice! ✨
Register now: docs.google.com/forms/d/1_KH...
Vanuatu announced that it has shared a zero draft of the UNGA Resolution to endorse the ICJ's climate change advisory opinion.
We support this resolution and call on others to to do the same, to support the rule of international law and the implementation of State accountability!
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NEW: Vanuatu has introduced a draft UN 🇺🇳 General Assembly resolution that builds on the International Court of Justice’s landmark ruling on States' legal duties in the context of climate change.
The resolution aims at turning legal clarity into collective #ClimateAction.
A myth busted: the obligations mentioned in the ICJ AO ARE legally binding!
As our campaigner Alisha explains, States and major polluters have BINDING legal obligations to take meaningful action to address the climate crisis, protect people, and safeguard the integrity of the climate system.
Become WYCJ European Front's Research & Advocacy Lead!
Come help us take the ICJ AO's implementation in Europe further by playing a key role in analysing European climate policy and shaping our regional strategy. ✨
🔗Apply by sending your motivation and your CV to henrieke@wy4c.org by 8 February!
After a historic year for climate justice, with groundbreaking advisory opinions from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), we are looking forward to helping to secure a proper implementation of these climate rulings in 2026! ✨
⏮️2025 RECAP: our South Asian Climate Justice Camp!
🌿Implementation of the ICJ AO requires people with thorough understanding of the ICJ's ruling, which is why organising more capacity-building programs is one of our goals for 2026. Help us realise this with your support: wy4cj.org/donate ✨
📢 Right to Stay, Right to Move: Turning the ICJ & IACtHR Climate Opinions into Dignified Climate Mobility Pathways
📆 13 November
🕐 1–2 PM BRT
📍 Climate Mobility Pavilion (CMP), Blue Zone
Join us today for a session on translating mobility-related holdings from the ICJ & IACtHR into concrete action!
📢 The ICJ Has Ruled: States' Obligations to Close the Ambition Gap
UNFCCC COP30 German Pavilion Side-Event
Join our experts today for an examination of how aspects of the ICJ AO could now influence German and European climate policy!
📆 13 November
🕟 4:30–5:30 PM BRT / UTC-3
📍 German Pavilion
📣 Carbon Colonialism, False Solutions & Climate Reparations
Join us for a space to connect struggles, challenge dominant narratives, and strengthen solidarity!
📆 14 November
🕐 1–2 PM BRT / UTC-3
📍 The Reparations Hub, COP30
🔗 More info and registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our campaigners who are at #COP30 make it clear: as the ICJ affirmed in its historic climate ruling, States have a binding legal obligation to protect human rights by taking sufficient measures.
1.5°C is the legal redline, and States must negotiate enough action at COP30 to stay under this limit!
No climate justice without human rights!
The human rights crises in Sudan and the Democratic Republic Congo demand our attention, compassion and unwavering commitment.
Read the full statement prepared by CAN Africa: can-africa.org/can-africa-s...
Civilians must be protected amid escalating RSF attacks in Kordofan region:
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
WHERE'S YOUR AMBITION?
In 2023 nations agreed to move away from fossil fuels.
Now leaders of rich countries aren’t even offering to do the bare minimum. None have committed to phasing out fossil fuels.
👉 climatenetwork.org/resource/ndc...
#COP30
#ShowSomeAmbition
#NDCNotGoodEnough
#NDCs
4/9. 📕Also see the pocket guide for negotiators and allies on leveraging the #ICJAO from the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC), @wy4cj.bsky.social, @ciel.org and @canpacificislands.bsky.social.
🔗Read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1jprY...
📢 Unpacking the ICJAO for COP30 Advocacy
Join us on the 28th to learn how to use the ICJ climate advisory opinion to its full advantage for your COP30 advocacy efforts!
📆 28 October, 2025
🕚 11 AM – 12:30 PM UTC / 12 – 1:30 PM CET
📍 Online, join here: bit.ly/COP30ICJAO
⚖️ The Inter-American Court of Human Rights made history with its advisory opinion on climate. How do we use it? 👉 bit.ly/AOzoom
📅 Join us 29 Oct at 3 PM UTC / 9 AM Mexico City / 10 AM Bogotá / 12 PM Santiago.
🗣️ More than a webinar. Come workshop with us!
💬 Spanish/English interpretation.
Today is the International Day of Rural Women♀️
A good moment to remember that climate justice is impossible without gender justice, as women are affected more by the adverse effects of climate change.
The Paris Agreement states that gender equality should be respected & promoted in climate action.
"Can justice cross oceans? Yes...
Polluters, be aware, the veil is lifting."
-- Nicole PONCE of @wy4cj.bsky.social reads out a poem that was made following the landmark #ICJAO ruling
🌍⚖️Behind the ICJ’s historic climate ruling: youth leadership, solidarity & movement lawyering.
👉🏽Read the new @iisd.org blog from colleagues at #pisfcc, @wy4cj.bsky.social & CIEL — ‘Movement Lawyering Matters’: bit.ly/3IVWs1k
#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ #HumanRights
"The era of impunity is over, and accountability begins."
Nicole Ponce of @wy4cj.bsky.social highlights how the impacts of climate change are a lived reality for many, who are taking the matter into their hands & advancing climate action by collaborating at national & international levels.
Join our Global Membership Onboarding Session and become part of WYCJ!✨
📅 On 11 October, we organise two Global Membership Onboarding Sessions to welcome new stubborn optimists to the organisation and to introduce them to our campaign for climate justice!
🚀Sign up to get invited: shorturl.at/tHUNP
CAN condemns the illegal Israeli aggression against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and its activists.
International law is clear. Israel is in violation.
We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel.
Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c...
#FreePalestine
🌽 Today, on the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, we must remember that reducing food loss and waste is one of the necessary steps to mitigate climate change and create a climate just world!
Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s minister of Climate Change, pictured at the rapid reaction event that took place in the Hague the day after the delivery of the Advisory Opinion on the obligations of states in respect to Climate Change by the International Court of Justice, has announced that Vanuatu is pursuing a new UN resolution to turn the ICJAO into political action. Image credit: Loss and Damage Collaboration.
1/10. ⚠️IMPORTANT #ICJAO UPDATE: Vanuatu is pursuing a new United Nations (UN) resolution to turn the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) 🏛️ Advisory Opinion (#ICJAO) ⚖️on the obligations of states in respect to #ClimateChange into political action. 🥳
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