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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/fe7cf23ab4288541 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-evasion-of-historical-responsibility/ The Evasion of Historical Responsibility? - Colonialism, Temporality and Reparative Justice in the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion Dehm, Julia eng 2025-09-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Advisory Opinion Climate Crisis climate litigation Resposibility Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The International Court Advisory’s advisory opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change has been celebrated as marking the start of a “new era of climate reparations.” In my contribution, I want to draw attention to how, even as the ICJ opened the door to climate reparations, it was evasive on the key temporal questions that are central to any future claims about reparations owed by individual countries for their historical greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, the advisory opinion avoided addressing how colonial histories continue to shape present day climate injustices and the need to decolonize international law.