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The Sabin Center, in partnership with Verfassungsblog, continued to publish blog posts on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice's advisory opinions on the climate emergency and their potential impacts in two blog symposiums:

• From Sidelines to Center Stage: Conferences of the Parties (COPs) as Legal Playmakers, by Sebastián Rioseco and Tejas Rao, September 16, 2025
• International Law’s Administrative Law Turn and the Paris Agreement, by Caroline E. Foster and Bella Belcher, September 11, 2025
• A Right to Defend the Environment: Legal Protection for Environmental Advocacy in the IACtHR’s Climate Advisory Opinion, by Nina Alizadeh Marandi and Philipp  Schönberger (September 9, 2025)
• Epistemic Authority and the Right to Science in AO-32/25: Legal Foundations for the Integration of Traditional Knowledge in the Inter-American System, by Alberto do Amaral Junior and Isabela Soares Bicalho (September 8, 2025)
• The Evasion of Historical Responsibility? Colonialism, Temporality and Reparative Justice in the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion, by Julia Dehm (Sept. 5, 2025)
• “Doing the utmost”: Due diligence as the standard of conduct in international climate law, by Christina Voigt (Sept. 3, 2025)
• Closing the Silences: Using the ICJ’s Interpretive Method to Read Its Climate Opinion, By David Frydlinger, August 29, 2025
• Can Africa Still Drill? What the ICJ Climate Opinion Means for Oil and Gas Exploration in Africa, By Elsabé Boshoff and Samrawit Getaneh Damtew, August 28, 2025
• Is Montevideo Sinking? “Disappearing” States and De-territorialized Statehood Following the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, By Aurelio Corneo and Judith Scherer, August 20, 2025
• When Custom Binds All States: Reflections on Customary International Law in the ICJ Climate Advisory Opinion, By Markus W. Gehring, August 17, 2025
• A Panoply of Consequences? Remedies and Reparations in the ICJ’s Climate Opinion, by Maria Antonia Tigre, Camille Martini, Miriam Cohen and Armando Rocha, August 13, 2025
• Harmonizing Sources, Hardening Duties – Inside the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, by Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, August 11, 2025
• Of Warming and Warzones: The Legal Status of Military Emissions in  the ICJ’s Climate Opinion, by Eva Baudichau, August 8, 2025
• The Struggle against Fossil Sovereignty: The International Court of Justice in the Climate Crisis, by Jochen von Bernstorff and Ingo Venzke, August 6, 2025
• New Standards in Government Framework Litigation: Legal Implications of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, by Joe Udell and Floris Tan, August 5, 2025
• Sea-Level Rise Reaches The Hague: Findings in Relation to the Law of the Sea in the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion, by Antoine De Spiegeleir and Armando Rocha, August 4, 2025
• Human Rights in the ICJ’s Climate Opinion: A Comparative Evaluation, by Corina Heri, August 1, 2025
• The Ruling and the Mirror: The ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion as Institutional Self-Portrait, by Antoine De Spiegeleir, July 31, 2025
• What the Court Didn’t Say: The ICJ’s Climate Opinion and the Politics of Judicial Restraint, by Jed Odermatt, July 30, 2025
• World’s Highest Court Embraces the Right to a Healthy Environment, by David R. Boyd, July 29, 2025
• A Single Paragraph’s Promise: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and the Understated Question of Human Displacement, by Lena Riemer, July 26, 2025
• Enhanced Due Diligence: A New Legal Standard for Climate Action in the Inter-American System, by Rodrigo da Costa Sales, July 25, 2025
• The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: An Introduction, by Maria Antonia Tigre, Maxim Bönnemann and Antoine De Spiegeleir, July 24, 2025
• Corporations, Climate, and the Court: New Directions for Business and Human Rights in AO-32/25, by Sarah Dorman, Monica Iyer and Kelsey Jost-Creegan, July 24, 2025
• Protecting Rights in the Anthropocene: How the Inter‑American Court’s Right to a Healthy Climate Pushes the Boundaries of Human Rights Law, by Verena Kahl and José Daniel Rodríguez Orúe, July 22, 2025
• Addressing Accountability in the IACtHR’s Advisory Opinion: The Question of Reparation and Loss and Damage, by Armando Rocha, Maria Antonia Tigre and Miriam Cohen, July 19, 2025
• Reproductive Rights and the Climate Crisis: The Omission of the Inter-American Court in AO-32/25, by Paulina Macías Ortega and Fabiola Gretzinger, July 18, 2025
• A Nod, Not a Leap: Gender and Climate in the IACtHR’s AO-32/25, by Maria Antonia Tigre, Dina Lupin, and Natalia Urzola, July 17, 2025
• Jus Cogens and the Climate Crisis: The IACtHR’s Landmark Climate Emergency Advisory Opinion and its Jus Cogens Verdict, by Markus W. Gehring, July 16, 2025
• The Right to a Healthy Environment as a Catalyst for Urgent and Ambitious Climate Action at the IACtHR, by David Boyd, July 15, 2025
• A Differentiated Path Forward: The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Human Mobility Rights, by Lena Riemer and Luca Scheid, July 10, 2025
• A Blueprint for Rights-Based Climate Action: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency, by Maria Antonia Tigre, Maxim Bonneman, and Korey Silverman-Roati, July 9, 2025