AFP :
The tiny low-lying Pacific island of Vanuatu said on Saturday it will lead a global campaign to get a landmark legal opinion from the UN’s top court on the consequences of global warming.Announced in the run-up to a major UN climate summit in Glasgow in November, the goal is to get one of the world’s highest judicial authorities to weigh in on the climate crisis.
Though a legal opinion by the court would not be binding, Vanuatu hopes it would shape international law for generations to come on the damage, loss and human rights implications of climate change.But no single state can request such an opinion from the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
