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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/ca99ffd63031501e https://verfassungsblog.de/closing-the-silences/ Closing the Silences - Using the ICJ’s Interpretive Method to Read Its Climate Opinion Frydlinger, David eng 2025-08-26 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Advisory Opinion Climate Crisis ICJ International Court of Justice Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Klimakatastrophe State Responsibility climate change customary law Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Klimakatastrophe Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 At COP 30 in Belém, ministers will wrangle over how “sufficient” the new climate-finance goal must be, and whether “phase-down” of coal is a slogan or a legal trigger. In Brussels, the 2040 climate target faces the same test, while in Geneva, the WTO’s fossil-subsidy reform stalls over which tax breaks to cut. Read through a strict consent-only lens, and these are political choices. Read through the ICJ’s frame – science, equity, no-harm, precaution – they become legal ones: finance must be capable of delivering 1.5°C and repairing loss and damage, coal and subsidy policies must be plausibly 1.5°C-compatible, and the burden falls on governments to prove it.