UN Court Says Nations Can Now Sue Each Other For ‘Climate Inaction’

Written by Andy Rowlands on July 30, 2025. Posted in Current News

Yesterday, the alarmist rag The People’s Voice published an article that positively gloats about countries now being allowed to sue each other if some undisclosed body determines not enough is being done to ‘save the planet’

It is not a long article, so I reproduce it in full, intersperced with my own comments:

The landmark decision was made at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday but the judge said that trying to decide who caused which part of climate change could be difficult.

Difficult? It will beyond impossible.

The ruling is non-binding but legal experts say it could have profound implications for climate-related lawsuits.

Not legally binding and could have. Well it’s about as much use as a chocolate teapot then.

BBC reports: It will be seen as a victory for countries that are very vulnerable to climate change, who came to court after feeling frustrated about lack of global progress in tackling the problem.

Which countries? Tell us, we need to know if we are to ‘save’ them. Are these people unaware of the amount of environmental legislation that has been passed in the last 20 years?

That is hardly inaction is it?

The unprecedented case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was the brainchild of a group of young law students from low-lying Pacific islands on the frontlines of climate change, who came up with the idea in 2019.

That will be those islands that are NOT being swallowed by the sea then.

One of those students, Siosiua Veikune from Tonga, was in the Hague to hear the decision. “I’m lost for words. This is so exciting. There’s a ton of emotions rushing through us. This is a win we take proudly back home to our communities,” he told BBC News.

“Tonight I’ll sleep easier. The ICJ has recognised what we have lived through – our suffering, our resilience and our right to our future,” said Flora Vano, from the Pacific Island Vanuatu, which is considered the country most vulnerable to extreme weather globally. This is a victory not just for us but for every frontline community fighting to be heard.”

Your suffering? What suffering is that? If Vanuatu is on the frontline of ‘climate change’ and in danger of being inundated by the sea, why is it spending £350 million on a new airport?

You don’t do that if your island is about to be submerged.

The ICJ is considered the world’s highest court and it has global jurisdiction. Lawyers have told BBC News that the opinion could be used as early as next week, including in national courts outside of the ICJ.

Opinion, not legally binding remember, and from the organisation that is at the frontline of climate misinformation.

Campaigners and climate lawyers hope the landmark decision will now pave the way for compensation from countries that have historically burned the most fossil fuels and are therefore the most responsible for global warming.

Burning so-called ‘fossil fuels’ has fork oil to do with the temperature of the planet.

Many poorer countries had backed the case out of frustration, claiming that developed nations are failing to keep existing promises to tackle the growing problem.

There is no problem, growing or otherwise. It is all total fiction.

But developed countries, including the UK, argued that existing climate agreements, including the landmark UN Paris deal of 2015, are sufficient and no further legal obligations should be imposed.

That’s the only thing in the article that is correct.

On Wednesday the court rejected that argument.

No surprise there. The surprise would have been if they had done anything else.

Judge Iwasawa Yuji also said that if countries do not develop the most ambitious possible plans to tackle climate change this would constitute a breach of their promises in the Paris Agreement.

He added that broader international law applies, which means that countries which are not signed up to the Paris Agreement – or want to leave, like the US – are still required to protect the environment, including the climate system.

See the People’s Voice article here

The UN is now able to dictate to all member states, other than the six nations who rejected the so-called ‘Pandemic Treaty’, how they will respond to future disease outbreaks, and those nations are legally bound to obey, whether they agree with the UN or not.

Now the UN wants to do the same with climate regulations, proving once and for all they are a bunch of megalomaniacs bent on world domination.

None of this is about saving people or the planet. It never was. It is about power, money and control.

We know this because the UN has been pushing for some years for a single government to govern the world, and they nominate themselves for that role.

God help us if they ever succeed in gaining global control. It will make even the hardline Communism we’ve seen look like a picnic.

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About the author: Andy Rowlands is a British university graduate in space science and Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the 2019 climate science book ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘

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