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Vanuatu is eagerly awaiting the outcome of a landmark move to hold countries, with a legal obligation to deal with climate change, to account. More than 100 countries, including Australia, have backed a push to clarify what nations are required to do in preventing environmental harm. Vice President of Research and Policy at the Environmental Law Institute Sandra Nichols Thiam explains.

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The courts have a lot of friends. How many of them care about the climate?

Jeremy Rubin, ELI Research and Publications Intern
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As the national conversation following the West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) verdict showed, climate change continues to be a focal point of this generation. And that conversation is happening both inside and outside the courtroom in the form of amicus briefs. Thirty-three amicus curiae, or “friend of the court” briefs, were filed for West Virginia v.

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