{"id":10913,"date":"2025-12-19T19:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/?page_id=10913"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:10:05","slug":"10913-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/en\/pravni-zapisi-1-2025\/10913-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 2 \u2022 pp. 499\u2013521<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>THE ICJ\u2019S ADVISORY OPINION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: A POSITIVE, YET SMALL, STEP FORWARD<\/b><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10868\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-Melanie-Maurer.pdf\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10868 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pravni-zapisi-2025-02-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Language: English<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Melanie Maurer <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, University of Vienna, Austria<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><strong>e-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:melanie.maurer@univie.ac.at\"><span class=\"s3\">melanie.maurer@univie.ac.at<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><strong>ORCID ID:<\/strong> 0009-0003-8901-5849<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pravni zapisi, No. 2\/2025, pp. 499-521<br \/>\nCase Note<br \/>\n<b>DOI:<\/b> 10.5937\/pravzap16-62288<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>KEY WORDS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Climate Change, ICJ, Advisory Opinion, State Obligations, State Responsibility, Climate Change Treaties, Statehood, Human Rights, International Environmental Law<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The ICJ\u2019s Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change represents a pivotal moment in international environmental law. Being one of three recent decisions on this matter, the Opinion fits neatly within a growing body of jurisprudence aimed at compelling States to fulfill their internationally owed duties. The Opinion clarifies that States have legal obligations from a panoply of legal instruments to mitigate, adapt and cooperate in regard to the adverse effects of climate change. A breach of these obligations constitutes an internationally wrongful act and triggers State responsibility. Additionally, the Court endorsed the 1.5\u00b0C temperature goal as a legally binding target. While the Opinion is laudable in many respects, others could have been improved. These include the reluctance of the Court to give a definite answer on the rights of future generations and the question of continued statehood due to the permanent loss of territory due rising sea levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 2 \u2022 pp. 499\u2013521 THE ICJ\u2019S ADVISORY OPINION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: A POSITIVE, YET SMALL, STEP FORWARD Melanie Maurer Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, University of Vienna, Austria e-mail: melanie.maurer@univie.ac.at ORCID ID: 0009-0003-8901-5849 Pravni zapisi, No. 2\/2025, pp. 499-521 Case Note DOI: 10.5937\/pravzap16-62288 KEY WORDS Climate Change, ICJ, Advisory Opinion, State Obligations, State Responsibility, Climate Change Treaties, Statehood, Human Rights, International Environmental Law ABSTRACT The ICJ\u2019s Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change represents a pivotal moment in international environmental law. 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