45/ 🔖 And it's a wrap...
🔗Full text of the Advisory Opinion in Spanish: jurisprudencia.corteidh.or.cr/es/vid/10849...
🔗Summary in Spanish: jurisprudencia.corteidh.or.cr/es/vid/10849...

23/ 🌍African Union's Makane Mbengue concludes this week's hearings with a strong plea for #ClimateJustice, including by demanding the Court to consider debt cancellation, or at least debt relief, as a suitable form of restitution compensation and satisfaction.

Providing an analysis of statements thus far, @ginevralemoli.bsky.social of EUI unpacks legal elements & the weight given to them, such as:

🧪 Role of science & conduct at State level
⚖️ How conduct is consistent or not with applicable law & legal obligations

#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

I believe that there are no known precedents in ICJ advisory proceedings - it seems like a historical first for the Court (based on arts. 68+50 of the ICJ Statute). It is instead relatively ‘common’ in contentious proceedings.