Of Warming and Warzones - The Legal Status of Military Emissions in the ICJ’s Climate Opinion
Baudichau, Eva
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2025-08-08
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Despite mounting attention to the impacts of military activities and conflicts on climate mitigation and adaptation in recent years, the issue remains largely absent from international legal scrutiny. Therefore, the very fact that several States and organizations raised it during the advisory proceedings held last December left the few scholars and practitioners working on this issue hopeful. This post reviews how the issue of armed conflicts and military emissions was addressed during the ICJ advisory proceedings. Despite the ICJ’s silence, the post highlights a few interpretative openings that may have legal implications for the regulation of wartime climate harms and explores what the ICJ’s ruling means for the legal visibility and accountability of military emissions.
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Baudichau, Eva
Advisory Opinion
Climate Crisis
ICJ
International Court of Justice
Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag
Klimakatastrophe
State Responsibility
climate change
Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag
Klimakatastrophe
342
https://verfassungsblog.de/military-emissions-icj-climate-opinion/
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