VANUATU is working to secure a United Nations vote to convert a teacher’s climate crisis by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) into concrete political action that fights the impact of fossil fuel industry and protecting the world from an environmental disaster.
In the effort to pursue the state of the Small Pacific Island, the International Court of Justice issued a consultative opinion of the rare consensus in July, which indicated that all countries are required under international climate protection law, and to prevent more damage and duty to cooperate.
The court found that this legal duty of addressing the climate crisis extends beyond the Paris Agreement for the year 2015, which Donald Trump withdrew from the United States on his first day in his position, and any breach of this duty leaves the countries open to compensation demands, including compensation.
“We are on the line of confrontation in the Pacific Ocean, but there is no country, not even the United States, isolated from climate change, and we do this on behalf of everyone,” said Ralph Regenvano, Minister of Climate Change in Vanuao.
“Our main effort now is to build a brown outside a policeman [UN climate talks] Using tools such as the consultative opinion of the international victim of the International Court, to try to influence the process from abroad and force countries to comply with their obligations under international law. “
“Every year, we leave the policeman depressed, but we will continue to participate every year, if we are not at the table we will be in the list. But I don’t think it can be fixed.”
Regenvanu’s comments come after Trump used his speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly to summon the climate crisis as a “super function” and a gentle veiled threats against countries that support renewable energy projects, which are disintegrated in the United States while enhancing fossil fuel production.
The production and use of fossil fuel leads the climate crisis, which is in the field of deadly turbocharged shipping, including thermal waves, hurricanes, droughts, and forest fires throughout the United States – none of them was mentioned in the cry of climate denial in Trump at the United Nations on Tuesday.
In the blatant opposite, Vanuato, the archipelago in the east of northern Australia, with a population of 330,000 people, culture, food and land sources, is an existential threats from the climate crisis, a long history of leadership in climate diplomacy.
VANUATU began invitations to the 1992 loss and damage fund, which was recently established in 2023 COP in Dubai, and was among the first countries to call for recognition of XD as a fifth crime against humanity under the Rome Law. She was also among the first supporters of the fossil fuel not to spread, then led the accusation on the International Court of Justice case after a group of law students pressed the government in 2019.
ICJ judges have found that 1.5C is a legally improvised limit and that all countries are obligated to implement evidence -based measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reduce global heating and protect the climate system.
Fossil fuels have caused widespread damage to human health, ecosystems, oceans, climate and government support for continuous production and consumption of oil, gas and coal through support and licenses “that are” an internationally unlawful “that is attributed to that state.
“The fossil fuel industry has acquired everything, from politics, to the media, and public discourse. It is the power of fossil fuel industry is the central power in the current world dynamics,” and the largest obstacle to addressing the climate crisis and implementing the ICJ rule, according to Regino.
The fossil fuel industry has spent at least $ 445 million in the last US electoral cycle to influence American politicians, especially Trump and the Republicans. Since winning his re -election and controlling both councils, Trump has cut off environmental regulations while the distinctive legislative package grants oil and gas companies 18 billion dollars In tax incentives.
Trump’s actions are not limited to local policy.
In recent months, the United States, which is the largest historical greenhouse emitter, has eliminated climate financing obligations as a debtor, according to international law, in countries that have been affected by its dependence on fossil fuels. Trump also withdrew from the main international forums, including the United Nations climatic talks and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), threatened to take revenge on the international carbon removal efforts to ship and move to renewable energy sources.
Amid unprecedented hostility from the United States and large -scale geopolitical tensions, Vanu’u is now working on a UN resolution that is likely to be presented after COP30 in BENEN, Brazil.
The decision is unlikely to be passed like Vanu’u’s decision in March 2023, which led to the ICJ case, but it is expected to obtain support for a large majority of countries and will be an important step in the results of the International Court of Justice to become practical obligations.
“We are not getting anywhere with consensus -based decisions because some states can prevent anyone else to ransom and stop new environmental protection agreements such as the plastic treaty, the global tax on shipping and in the only place that is a kind of safety from this is the United Nations General Assembly, where the majority vote.”
“In some forums, it is better for the United States not present. We have less obstacle and less resistance in the room, so that we can do more … but see, every month there is another disaster in the United States, people are already dying here. In the end, the day of reckoning will come to the United States, and every month looks change something.”