The UN maritime court on Tuesday ruled in favour of nine small island states who brought a case to seek increased protection of the world's oceans from catastrophic climate change.
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(FILES) The emblem of the International Tribual for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS) outside their premises on September 11, 2023 in Hamburg, northern Germany, where leaders of small island states turned to the UN maritime court to seek protection of the world's oceans from catastrophic climate change which threaten the very existence of entire countries. The UN maritime court on May 21, 2024 ruled in favour of nine small island states who brought a case to seek increased protection of the world's oceans from catastrophic climate change. Finding that carbon emissions can be considered a sea pollutant, the court said countries have an obligation to take measures to mitigate their effects on oceans. -- Photo: Gregor Fischer / AFP
2024-05-22 10:19:40
The UN maritime court on Tuesday ruled in favour of nine small island states who brought a case to seek increased protection of the world's oceans from catastrophic climate change.
Finding that carbon emissions can be considered a sea pollutant, the court said countries have an obligation to take measures to mitigate their effects on oceans.
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