In this short blog post, the executive assistant of the Climate Change Law Specialist Group IUCN WCEL – Aditi Shetye shares her thoughts and analysis on the 77th United Nations General Assembly held in September 2022 in the context of climate action and high-level discussions by parties and their national delegations’ on Vanuatu’s International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion (ICJAO) initiative. This blog is written for the Climate Change Law Network and World’s Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ).

The World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), IUCN and University of Oslo, hosted an International Environmental Law Conference in Oslo in October 2022. WYCJ’s academic team leader, Aditi Shetye and team member, Manon Rouby were invited to present WYCJ’s ICJAO initiative

On a hot summer day in July, WYCJ co-hosted a Conversation on the ICJ, Climate Change and Human Rights - the Pacific and the Caribbean connect at the Geneva Graduate Institute. The event was kindly sponsored by Sidley Austin LLP.