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Res. 77/276 on Request for an Advisory Opinion of the I.C.J. on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (U.N.G.A.)

Request for an Advisory Opinion Submitted by the Comm'n of small Island States on Climate Change (COSIS) : Request for an Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency & Human Rights (Chile & Colom.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2023

Nathaniel Khng ,
Kevin Chand  and
Lucía Solano
Nathaniel Khng
Affiliation:
LL.B. (Hons) (Melb), LL.M. (Yale), Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), Australian Lawyer (Victoria, Australia), Foreign Legal Consultant (New York, United States), Counsellor (Legal) at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations in New York. All views expressed in this note are personal.
Kevin Chand
Affiliation:
LL.M. (Stanford), Senior Legal and Political Adviser at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Vanuatu to the United Nations in New York. All views expressed in this note are personal.
Lucía Solano
Affiliation:
LL.M. (Georgetown). Lawyer and Political Scientist (Colombia). Counsellor (Legal) at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Colombia to the United Nations in New York, United States. All views expressed in this note are personal.
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Over the course of the period from the end of 2022 to early 2023, requests for advisory opinions on climate change were, for the first time, made to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR).

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International Legal Documents
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International Legal Materials , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , February 2024 , pp. 47 - 64
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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ENDNOTES

1 Meeting Coverage, General Assembly, General Assembly Adopts Resolution Requesting International Court of Justice Provide Advisory Opinion on States’ Obligations Concerning Climate Change, U.N. Meeting Coverage GA/12497 (Mar. 29, 2023).

2 See G.A. Res. 77/296, pmbl. ¶¶ 2–4, U.N. Doc. A/RES/77/296 (Mar. 29, 2023).

3 Id. pmbl. ¶¶ 5–7.

4 Id. pmbl. ¶ 9.

5 Id. pmbl. ¶¶ 1, 6, 8, 10.

6 Id. pmbl. ¶¶ 11–12.

7 Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Introduction of Draft Resolution on Request for an Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (Mar. 29, 2023), https://estatements.unmeetings.org/estatements/10.0010/20230329100000000/hYpurutfNvyg/TL2SkH5JSFm1_en.pdf.

8 See G.A. Res. 77/296, supra note 2, ¶¶ (a), (b).

9 Agreement for the establishment of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, Antigua & Barbuda-Tuvalu, Oct. 31, 2021, U.N.T.S. Reg. No. 56940.

10 Id. art. 2(1).

11 Id. art. 2(2).

12 Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, Case No. 31, Request for an Advisory Opinion of Dec. 12, 2022, https://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/cases/31/Request_for_Advisory_Opinion_COSIS_12.12.22.pdf.

13 American Convention on Human Rights “Pact of San José, Costa Rica,” Nov. 11, 1969, 1144 U.N.T.S. 123.