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Meet the students taking climate justice to the world’s highest court | South China Morning Post

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Cynthia Houniuhi and 26 other law students banded together in 2019 and started a campaign to bring climate change to the world's top court. They asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to define the obligations of states to combat climate change and the consequences for not doing so. On March 29, 2023, the Un…

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