{"id":6201,"date":"2023-05-29T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/un-resolution-game-changer-for-climate-justice"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:31:47","slug":"un-resolution-game-changer-for-climate-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/un-resolution-game-changer-for-climate-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"UN resolution game changer for climate justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/antonioGut_1685348987.jpeg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The world of geopolitics and climate change can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>But, in a world first, we saw one of the tiniest countries on earth, and a group of law students from Fiji, convince every country on earth to pass a crucial resolution at the UN that could transform how the world understands our legal obligations to tackling the climate crisis.<br\/><br\/>The UN General Assembly about a month ago adopted the resolution, proposed by the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, for the world\u2019s highest legal authority, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), to provide a legal opinion on what obligations nations are under to protect generations from climate change.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of geopolitics and climate change can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming. But, in a world first, we saw one of the tiniest countries on earth, and a group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[27],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-climate-justice"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}