WWF submit Statement to ICJ in Climate Advisory Opinion proceedings

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has submitted a statement to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its Advisory Opinion proceedings on the Obligation of States in Respect of Climate Change. 

WWF’s Statement responds to the questions posed to the Court, by focusing on States’ obligations to protect biodiversity from the harmful effects of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and the legal consequences that flow from States’ violations of those obligations under international law. 

In its Statement, WWF stresses the threat climate change poses to biodiversity, and the inextricable link between a healthy environment, thriving biodiversity, and human existence. It also highlights the critical role that certain species play in mitigating the harmful effects of GHGs on the Earth’s climate.  

WWF’s press release is available here, and WWF’s Statement is available here.

Tatyana Eatwell and Margherita Cornaglia from Doughty Street International were instructed by Squire Patton Boggs, together with barristers from Twenty Essex, Matrix Chambers, Brick Court Chambers and No5 Chambers.

For further information about the ICJ Climate Advisory Opinion proceedings, and DSI members’ work with respect to these proceedings, see here, here and here.

Further information about the work of DSI’s Climate and Environmental Justice Group is available here.