Posted on 04/05/2023 6:24:28 PM PDT by marshmallow
The International Court of Justice will now determine states' legal and financial obligations in preventing climate harm
Various Catholic groups praised a United Nations' resolution that calls on the International Court of Justice to outline countries' obligations for protecting the earth's climate, and the legal consequences they face if they don't carry these out.
The resolution was pushed by Pacific Islander youth and by the small island nation of Vanuatu, whose future is threatened by rising sea levels and cyclones. The U.N. General Assembly adopted the resolution by consensus March 29.
The Laudato Si' Movement, an international network of Catholic groups working to protect the environment in line with Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical on the need to care for the earth, welcomed the resolution "given that it takes concrete and safe steps on the way out of the current impasse in terms of science-backed climate change mitigation."
The movement's Carmelite Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel told OSV News the resolution "is asking the international court to issue an informed opinion on the legality or otherwise of the current failure of States to comply with the existing normative framework to care for the earth's climate, and to highlight inconsistencies, noncompliance and loopholes."
ICJ opinions are nonbinding but hold significant moral and legal weight.
Supporters of the U.N. resolution hope the international court's forthcoming advisory opinion regarding climate protections-expected in about two years-will urge world governments to speed up their climate action.
The Catholic Climate Covenant, a Washington-based organization inspired by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' 2001 statement on climate change, told OSV News it supported the U.N. resolution's "underlying principle … to ensure greater international climate financing."
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They will have a big climate change extravaganza directly following the easter sunday childrens drag show egg frollick
“The resolution was pushed by Pacific Islander youth “
Sure it was you globalist bastards.
Wondering if the Catholic Climate Covenant is really the “Catholic” Climate Coven.
Satanism.
They’re just mirroring the communist pope.
Falling for the climate change is real and can be fixed by extorting America instead of real problems IS the current problem the Catholic Church faces.
Pro-Abort Catholic Rats. What else is new?
Fortunately the US does not recognize the International Court of Justice.
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