UN Court Rules on Climate Change Reparations
International Court of Justice at The Hague
U.N. Court Says Nations Ignoring Climate Change Are Liable for Damages
Lowell Cauffiel
The United Nations’ top court ruled Wednesday that countries harmed by the effects of “climate change” could be entitled to reparations from countries that fail to “take appropriate action to protect the climate system.”
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague also called a failure to take measures to protect the earth a potential violation of international law, according to reporting of the opinion by a variety of news outlets.
The legal consequences resulting from the commission of an internationally wrongful act may include … full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction,” the court said, according to extensive coverage by France24.
The ICJ added, that a “sufficient direct and certain causal nexus” had to be shown “between the wrongful act and the injury.”
“Failure of a state to take appropriate action to protect the climate system … may constitute an internationally wrongful act,” court president Yuji Iwasawa said during the hearing.
The Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu sued due to concerns it could be destroyed by rising sea levels; 130 other countries agreed.
The ICJ primarily arbitrates legal disputes among UN member nations that recognize its authority. Sadly, the United States withdrew from the court’s compulsory jurisdiction in 1986 after the court ruled it owed Nicaragua war reparations. However, this will not stop the ICJ from submitting to the US a strongly worded letter.
Category: Points-and-Laughs, United Nations
will they go after china and N. korea, yea right, fat chance
Ditto with India, which has been declared to be THE world’s most polluted country.
Bangladesh rates lower only because of a smaller land area and population. I remember reading per capita, they make India look pristine.
Haiti would probably put the both of them to shame in per capita pollution.
Who is compelled or beholding to him or his make believe court of nations. Better that they all be charged as pederasters, as they mostly are.
Great! Looking forward to the UN extracting reparations from the offending nations, those nations being China, India and Pakistan.
I want reparations for the Un wasting good NYC real estate and oxygen.
Fug’m with a rusty pipe wrench holding a pineapple wrapped in barbed wire.
Also, two references to Team America in one day? Great minds…
Yeah, it’s also the ICJ that wanted to bring war crime charges against U.S. service members for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The government told them to fuck off and refuse to ratify the agreement.
Was that ICC or ICJ?
We didn’t accept/ratify ICC.
250 years ago we began a war stop folks in Europe from trying to tell us what to do.
ICC. Here is the AI result I got after a quick Google search:
1. The ICC did authorize an investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, which included looking into accusations against US forces and the CIA, according to NPR. This investigation was authorized in March 2020 after an appeal.
2. The ICC prosecutor’s office had presented information establishing a reasonable basis to believe that crimes under the court’s jurisdiction had been committed, including torture and cruel treatment by US military and CIA personnel.
3. However, the US is not a party to the ICC’s founding treaty, the Rome Statute, and has consistently opposed the court’s jurisdiction over its citizens.
4. The US response to the ICC’s investigation has included measures such as revoking the chief prosecutor’s visa and imposing sanctions on ICC officials.
5. In September 2021, the ICC’s new prosecutor announced that the court would deprioritize the investigation into US and allied forces and focus primarily on crimes committed by the Taliban and ISIS-K, notes The Intercept. This decision was attributed, in part, to the withdrawal of US forces and resource limitations.
To summarize, yeah we told the ICC to screw off. The CIA being implicated in those allegations may hold water. But US Service Members? I don’t think so. At least they are now looking at the actual bad guys (Taliban and ISIS-K) and they will bring these criminals to justice, no sooner than the year 9999 (this estimate was based on the accounting of current ICC resources).
We already have what amounts to a conditional declaration of war against the ICC. We just need to remind folks
“If you and your associated court kangaroos so much as rend the garment of an American, we will carpet bomb you until the rubble bounces.”
Well no. We know for a fact that some service members did indeed commit war crimes, under the color of the flag, conducting normal operations.
Some of the soldiers have been tried, convicted and served their sentences already. The fact that the Army never called them war crimes has little to do with it. I would also argue seven years for premeditated murder and other charges was the faintest slap on the wrist I’ve ever seen.
I stand corrected. You are correct.
Clowns beclowning themselves most clownishly.
They’ve made their decree. Let’s see them enforce it – China first.
Liechtenstein is on the ICJ’s aggrieved list. It’s landlocked of course, which tends to dilute it’s outcry.
I had to Google Liechtenstein (they’re an obscure country, yet android has their flag?!🇱🇮).
Since this scene wasn’t brought up yet, I submit this on behalf of the United States of America:
Somehow, I
Sure the U.S. is the top Culprit and countries like China, India, Pakistan, etc. Will all be victims!
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I won’t be really worried [a little bit] until they start sending out their “We really mean it this time, we are genuinely peeved!” letter…followed by the obligatory; “If you don’t pay up soon, we’ll hold our breath until we turn even more gay!”
FUCK the United Nothing, never in human history has there ever been a more impotent, incompetent and corrupt entity.
League of Nations: Am I joke to you?
They need to contact the lady that handles complaints here at TAH. They can go to Helen Waite.
Will Samoa have to pay reparations for the volcanic eruptions that spread ash and CO2 throughout the atmosphere?
I better get my claim for reparations due to exposure from Samoas eruptions. I think I’ll ask for a $100,000,000.00. I don’t want to seem greedy.
Same thing with the PI from the Mount Pinatubo eruption?
What’s that quote, “the judge has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”?
Close enough, but yet another racist Democrat rounding up people, stealing their property and putting them into camps because they weren’t white enough.