Friends of the Initiative

Honorary Supporters

We thank our honorary supporters for their extraordinary support and contributions that they have made to the ICJAO campaign and to the WYCJ.

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.’

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

PROFESSOR JORGE E. VINUALES

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

PROFESSOR PAT PARENTEAU

Vermont Law School

PROFESSOR MORGAN WAIRIU

Solomon Islands

PROFESSOR ROGER S. CLARK

Board of Governors Professor Rutgers Law School

DR. DAVID BOYD

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment

PROFESSOR DONALD K. ANTON

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

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.’