nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ca99ffd63031501e DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250804s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ca99ffd63031501e doi eng 342 23 De Spiegeleir, Antoine Author aut Sea-Level Rise Reaches The Hague - Findings in Relation to the Law of the Sea in the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion De Spiegeleir, Antoine Verfassungsblog 2025-08-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The advisory opinion rendered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 23 July 2025 marks a pivotal moment in the articulation of States’ obligations concerning climate change. While based on broader rules and principles of international law, the opinion foregrounded the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as a key legal framework relevant to defining States’ climate obligations. As the ICJ itself stated, UNCLOS ‘forms part of the most directly relevant applicable law’ (para. 124). Thus, far from peripheral, the law of the sea emerged as a primary site for interpreting and enforcing States’ climate obligations under international law. CC BY-SA 4.0 Advisory Opinion Climate Crisis ICJ International Court of Justice Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Klimakatastrophe Law of the Sea Small Islands climate change (DE-588)36344-3 gnd Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag (DE-588)4234460-8 gnd Klimakatastrophe Rocha, Armando Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/law-of-the-sea-in-the-icjs-climate-change-advisory-opinion/ raw object