Friends of the Initiative

Notable Supporters

  • Mary Robinson

    Chair of The Elders, Former President - Ireland, and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

    “I absolutely support an ICJ Advisory Opinion and I hope it will raise awareness on climate justice.”

    “I would invite those who are involved in the AO to take a very broad view of the injustices that need a climate justice approach.”

  • Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

    President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad, Member of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee, UN Sustainable Development Goal Advocate

  • Xiye Bastida

    Youth climate justice activist, Organizer of Fridays For Future, Co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative

  • Dr. David Boyd

    United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment

  • Professor Pat Parenteau

    Vermont Law School

  • Professor Jorge E. Vinuales

    Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge

  • Professor Morgan Wairiu

    Solomon Islands

  • Professor Donald K. Anton

    Honorary Professor at the Australian National University College of Law, Adjunct Professor Griffith University Law Futures Centre

  • Professor Roger S. Clark

    Board of Governors Professor Rutgers Law School

  • Professor Randall S. Abate

    Monmouth University

    ‘Climate justice is the fight for your future. Keep up the great work and a just transition will await you on the horizon.’

  • Margaret Young

    Professor, Melbourne Law School, Australia, Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2024-2028), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law

    “The International Court of Justice is well-placed to advise the United Nations on legal questions relating to climate change. To paraphrase a Judge from earlier environmental litigation at the Court, “If not now, when?” (Weeramantry J, Request for an Examination of the Situation (Nuclear Tests) [1995] ICJ Reps 288, 362).”

  • Edgardo Sobenes

    International Lawyer

    Future generations will look back and recognize the immense contribution of this global campaign to secure an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ. Assertively, this initiative recognizes the need for clarification of the legal obligations of states to protect the rights of current, and future generations, from the adverse effects of climate change, and reveals an understanding of the pertinence and importance of the advisory function of the ICJ. Their vision should be everyone’s vision.

  • Christiana Figueres

    Former Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Climate Change and Co-host of the podcast Outrage and Optimism.

  • Micheal Fakhri

    UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Food

    “An ICJ Advisory Opinion would be an opportunity to galvanize an international response to climate change. An ICJ Advisory Opinion would also clarify the geographic and generational inequities and responsibilities created by climate change."

Honorary Supporters

  • Beatrice Tabangcora

    Samoa, University of South Pacific School of Law Academic

    “Pacific Island Countries have championed the issue of climate change for generations. Seeing young Pacific Islanders and youth from around the world passionately advocate for the future of our Pacific homes and for our planet gives me hope for tomorrow. It is an honour to support the ICJAO Initiative.”

  • Dr. Kate Dewes

    Disarmament Consultant

    “This is a great initiative inspired by the case we ordinary anti-nuclear campaigners from New Zealand and around the world took in the 1990s to the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the legal status of nuclear weapons. I am delighted to see this project to save our precious planet being led by Pacific Island youth and future leaders in the movement .”

  • Atty. Antonio A. Oposa Jnr

    Pioneering environmental advocate and creative litigator
    Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner, Philippines

  • Professor David Foreman

    University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • Dr. Justin Rose

    Adjunct Professor, School of Law, University of the South Pacific

    Member, World Commission on Environmental Law

    "I wholeheartedly support World’s Youth for Climate Justice campaign for an ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate and Human Rights. The international law of climate change will only reach its goals when the inertia of the present is finally replaced by the ambition and optimism now being voiced by tomorrow’s leaders. It is a source of great pride that former students of mine are among the convenors of this new global movement."

  • Dr. Tolu Muliaina

    Lecturer, University of the South Pacific, Samoa

    Co-founding member of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change

    “As always, the PISFCC and WYCJ have my strongest support.”

Friends of the Initiative

  1. Professor John Dugard - Leiden Law School, Leiden University

  2. Professor David Boyd - UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment and University of British Colombia

  3. Professor Katrina Kuh - Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

  4. Professor Tim Stephens - Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

  5. Professor Rosemary Lyster - Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

  6. Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger - Director,  Centre for International Sustainable Development Law

  7. Professor Klaus Bosselmann - Faculty of Law, University of Auckland

  8. Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

  9. Professor Don Anton - Griffith Law School, Griffith University

  10. Professor Meinhard Doelle - Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

  11. Professor David Forman - School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa

  12. Professor Melissa Scanlan - Vermont Law School

  13. Professor Joanne Scott - Department of Law, European University Institute

  14. Professor Sumudu Attapatu - Director of Research Centers, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School

  15. Professor David Takacs - Hastings College of Law, University of California

  16. Professor Jolene Lin - Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

  17. Professor Sharon Mascher - Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

  18. Professor Roger Clark - Rutgers Law School, Rutgers University

  19. Professor John Dernbach - Widener University Commonwealth Law School, Widener University

  20. Attorney Antonio A. Oposa Jnr - Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner, Philippines

  21. Professor Lisa Benjamin - Lewis & Clark Law School

  22. Professor Patrick Parenteau - Vermont Law School

  23. Professor Rebecca Bratspies - School of Law, College University of New York

  24. Professor Nigel Bankes - Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

  25. Professor Stephen Stec - Environmental Sciences and Policy Department, Central European University, Hungary

  26. Professor Muhammed T Ladan - Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University 

  27. Professor Zygmunt Broel Plater - Boston College Law School Boston College

  28. Emilie Gaillard - Associate Professor in Private Law (Sciences Po Rennes) and co-head of the Risk Division of the MRSH (Caen France).

  29. Professor Shelley Saxer - School of Law, Pepperdine University 

  30. Professor Ademola Jegede - School of Law, University of Venda, South Africa

  31. Associate Professor Achinthi Vithanage - George Washington University Law School

  32. Professor Randall Abate - Political Science Department, Monmouth University

  33. Dr. Guido Schmidt-Traub - Executive Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

  34. Professor Margaret Young - Melbourne Law School, Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2024-2028), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law

  35. Professor Nilufer Oral - National University of Singapore, United Nations International Law Commission

  36. Professor Helene Tigroudja - Aix-Marseille Université, United Nations Human Rights Committee

  37. Micheal Fakhri - United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Youth