{"id":9652,"date":"2024-07-02T22:49:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:50:47","slug":"itlos-advisory-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2024\/07\/02\/itlos-advisory-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"ITLOS Advisory Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) has delivered its much-awaited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itlos.org\/fileadmin\/itlos\/documents\/cases\/31\/Advisory_Opinion\/C31_Adv_Op_21.05.2024_orig.pdf\">advisory opinion<\/a> regarding climate change obligations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). In the opinion, the ITLOS specified that state parties to the UNCLOS have the obligation to take \u201call necessary measures to prevent, reduce, and control marine pollution from anthropogenic GHG emissions and to endeavor to harmonize their policies in this connection\u201d (para 243). Additionally, the tribunal emphasized that the due diligence obligation of the state parties is a stringent one (para 242). This decision is issued in the wake of the European Court of Human Rights <a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng#%7B%22itemid%22:%5B%22001-233206%22%5D%7D\">decision<\/a> related to climate change obligations under the European Human Rights Convention and is another in a series of recent climate change-related international proceedings, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icj-cij.org\/case\/187\">ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/climatecasechart.com\/non-us-case\/request-for-an-advisory-opinion-on-the-scope-of-the-state-obligations-for-responding-to-the-climate-emergency\/\">Inter-American Court of Human Rights<\/a>. Read more on international climate change litigations <a href=\"https:\/\/sdg.iisd.org\/commentary\/policy-briefs\/ongoing-climate-proceedings-setting-the-stage-for-icjs-opinion\/\">here<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips32','International Institute for Sustainable Development<!--more-->'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Institut international du d\u00e9veloppement durable'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips34','Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips79','Sustainable Development Goal'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips110','inversi\u00f3n extranjera directa'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) has delivered its much-awaited advisory opinion regarding climate change obligations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}