Progress through disruption? What role for the ICJ in the Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

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Marlene Letsch is research assistant at a global law firm, after recently graduating from Bucerius Law School with a specialization in Public international and European Law. During her studies she participated in The Hague Academy and completed an internship at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

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Progress through disruption? What role for the ICJ in the Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

January 22, 2025

Jannika Jahn

Marlene Letsch

In the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) advisory procedure on international obligations of states in respect of climate change the US government raises the concern that the ICJ could disrupt the cooperative legal system that states have established under the UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement (PA) through its interpretation of customary law (written statement (WS) USA,…