Climate change could compromise human rights, including the 'right to health' (ICJ)

Human rights could be threatened by climate change, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's highest court, said in an unprecedented advisory opinion issued in The Hague on Wednesday (23).

“The adverse effects of climate change can significantly impair the effective enjoyment of certain human rights, such as the right to health” and “the right to an adequate standard of living,” ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa said as he read the advisory opinion prepared by the institution’s 15 international judges.

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