http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/de20b1179e9aeb70 https://verfassungsblog.de/icj-climate-right-to-a-healthy-environment/ A Right Foundational to Humanity’s Existence - World’s Highest Court Embraces the Right to a Healthy Environment Boyd, David R. eng 2025-07-30 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Advisory Opinion Climate Crisis ICJ International Court of Justice Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Klimakatastrophe climate change Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Klimakatastrophe Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 For the second time in a month, one of the world’s highest judicial authorities has issued an advisory opinion on the climate crisis that highlights the importance of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Echoing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its Advisory Opinion 32/25, on July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) unanimously held that this right constitutes a binding norm of international law.