The U.N. top court to hear a historic climate change case from Dec. 2

United Nations top court, International Court of Justice, has announced that public hearings will start on a landmark case “the obligations of States in respect of climate change” from December 2. The U.N. court's panel of 15 judges from around the world will engage itself to answer two questions:

a) What are countries obliged to do under international law to protect the climate and environment from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions? And what are the legal consequences for governments where their acts of lack of action have significantly harmed the climate and environment?

b) Second question pertains to “small island developing States". The International Court of Justice is based in Hague, Netherlands. A domestic court here created history ruling that protection from devastating effects of climate change is a human right; and that government is duty bound to protect its citizens. Later, the Supreme Court of Netherland had upheld the ruling.