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Island nation's landmark legal challenge on climate change
Initiatives such as Vanuatu’s seek to hold polluting governments and companies around the world to account
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Members of the UN Ocean Conference pose for a group photo at Altice Arena in Lisbon on June 27, 2022.
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A low-lying Pacific nation of 83 islands, Vanuatu, is taking the lead on climate change - it is seeking legal protection from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and is presenting a motion at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) later this year to do this.
What Vanuatu - with a population of just 300,000 people - is seeking from the ICJ is a ruling on climate-related violation of human rights.
