Report also highlights devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa, which tore through Jamaica in October 2025. Photograph: Raquel Cunha/Reuters Natricia Duncan July 29, 2026 Findings can inform conversations about global climate reparations and financing for mitigations, researchers say Caribbean nations suffered $53.2bn (£40bn) of damage from climate-fuelled disasters between 2000 and 2024, research into the cost of … Continue reading Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands
Category: Climate Justice
The International Institute for Sustainable Development has a good set of briefs on the implications of the ICJ Opinion. May 21, 2026 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) provided authoritative legal guidance on states’ obligations to address climate change in 2025. Yesterday, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to welcome the ICJ opinion on … Continue reading UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution on the ICJ Opinion on Climate Change
Professor Bonny Ibhawoh, chair of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, will share recommendations from a study conducted with the support of McMaster students and researchers. Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh, vice-provost, International, will outline policy proposals from a climate justice study that he will be presenting at an event during COP30. Creating … Continue reading McMaster expert unveils blueprint for climate justice at COP30
Authors Cara Schulte, rapporteur for the Caribbean Court of Justice at the Sabin Center for Climate Law’s global peer review network on climate litigation; doctoral candidate, University of California, Berkeley, and researcher at Climate Rights International. Cristian Heredia Ligorria, regional rapporteur for the Caribbean and other regions at the Sabin Center for Climate Law’s global peer review network on … Continue reading How Caribbean states are shifting climate legislation
Copyright AP Photo/Peter Dejong By Rosie Frost Published on 25/07/2025 The ICJ’s advisory opinion spells out states’ duties on climate, opening doors for lawsuits and stronger climate action On Wednesday, the UN’s highest court delivered a historic opinion on climate change, outlining states’ responsibilities under international law. It was the largest case ever seen by the International Court … Continue reading Five key takeaways from the ICJ’s historic climate ruling and what comes next
The Community Resilience Forum is part of a tri-regional initiative co-organized by the University of Toronto’s Centre for Global Engineering, in partnership with The University of the West Indies (UWI) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It is supported by the University of Toronto’s Office of the Vice-President, International, and SDGs@UofT. Following earlier … Continue reading Tri-Regional Resilience Workshop: June 16, 2025
UPDATED May 05, 2025 BRUSSELS/LONDON - The United States is seeking to weaken a global deal aimed at helping developing countries struggling with the impacts of climate change and other issues, an internal United Nations document seen by Reuters showed. The Trump administration opposes draft reforms of the world's financial system intended to help developing countries, … Continue reading US seeks to weaken global development finance efforts, UN document shows
The Centre for Reparation Research invites you to participate in our webinar ‘Climate Justice is Reparatory Justice' on April 22nd, 2025, at 3pm JA time. Register for this event.
Are you, like many, confused on just where we are with the various international enviromental initiatives? The International Institute for Sustainable Development has released the annual State of Global Environmental Governance report. This not only explores the hits and misses of 2024’s environmental talks (and forecasts what to expect in the coming months) but it also breaks … Continue reading State of Global Environmental Governance 2024
February 21, 2025 The Hon. Dickon Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada and Immediate Past Chairman of CARICOM, on Wednesday emphasised the need for partnership to tackle climate change. The Prime Minister, whose country was among CARICOM Member States that were devastated by Category 4 Hurricane Beryl last year, addressed the matter of climate change at … Continue reading ‘We are not asking for mercy or sympathy; we are asking for partnership’ – Grenada Prime Minister