30/ 🇫🇯 Fiji demands that Court stresses need for:
🚫 cessation of harmful actions (dismantling systemic structures)
💰 enforceable reparations (for both eco & non eco losses & proportionate to the harm caused)
🗣️ And asks: Where else can Fiji turn to seek justice, if not this court?

29/ 🇫🇯Fiji's Graham Leung then speaks to linkages between human rights obligations & climate harms, using the opportunity to clarify the actual content of 🇪🇺 ⚖️ European Court of #HumanRights decision in Duarte Agostinho (which has been misquoted several times by European States)

28/ 🇫🇯 Fiji's Graham Leung stresses direct relevance & applicability in climate context of 2 core principles of international law:
⛑️ duty to prevent trans boundary harm
🆓 right to self determination
noting the explicit references to these principles across legal frameworks

27/ 🇫🇯Fiji's Graham Leung cites the recent Advisory Opinion issued by the ⚖️ 🌊 International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea
concerning the fact that the #ParisAgreement does not displace existing international legal obligations.
🔖 🔗 www.itlos.org/en/main/case...

26/ 🇫🇯Fiji's AG Graham Leung concludes the day laying out key legal principles (such as sovereign equality, good faith, the duty to cooperate and the right to self determination) informing the scope of States' existing legal obligations to prevent environmental harm.

25/ 🇫🇯Fiji's Luke Daunivalu stresses that, while multilateral negotiations settle on the lowest common denominator, the ⚖️ 🇺🇳 Court is uniquely positioned to address the gaps in the multilateral system regarding climate, thereby providing accountability & hope to those most impacted.

24/🇫🇯 Fiji's Luke Daunivalu describes constant state of recovery that Small Islands find themselves in as a result of cascading climate shocks undermining development & forcing displacement - stressing failure by developed countries to deliver on their climate finance commitments.

23/ 🤯 perhaps most striking: the US legal arguments positing the centrality of the UNFCCC & the #ParisAgreement & its nature as a self-contained regime basically prepare ground for next US administration to reject any accountability once/if it has withdrawn from these frameworks

18/🇺🇸USA tackles one principle after another, working to either dismiss their legal nature or undermine their scope: CBDR, historic responsibility, right to a healthy environment, extraterritorial obligation, obligation of result...
The US acts as a bull in a China shop.