By Genevieve Phillips Source: Unsplash On the 23rd of July 2025, the International Court of Justice delivered the most consequential climate ruling in history. In a unanimous advisory opinion, the world's highest court found that states have binding legal obligations to protect the climate system and that failing to meet them can amount to an international wrongful act, drawing nearly 100 states, the largest in its history. Yet its origin lay not in any capital, but in a Univ