Small Island Nations Take Long Fossil Fueled Flights To Tell ICJ Other Countries Are The Problem

Seriously, they couldn’t have made the case using Zoom to eliminate that carbon footprint?

Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told

A handful of countries should be held legally responsible for the ongoing impacts of climate change, representatives of vulnerable states have told judges at the international court of justice (ICJ).

During a hearing at the Peace Palace in The Hague, which began on Monday, Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s special envoy for climate change and environment, said responsibility for the climate crisis lay squarely with “a handful of readily identifiable states” that had produced the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions but stood to lose the least from the impacts.

The court heard how Pacific island states such as Vanuatu were bearing the brunt of rising sea levels and increasingly frequent and severe disasters. “We find ourselves on the frontlines of a crisis we did not create,” Regenvanu said.

I’ve pointed out numerous times that sea rise is well below what should expected for a Holocene warm period

Over the next two weeks, the court will hear statements from 98 countries, including wealthy developed states with the greatest historical responsibility for the climate emergency, such as the UK and Russia, and states that have contributed very little to global greenhouse gas emissions but stand to bear the brunt of their impact, including Bangladesh and Sudan as well as Pacific island countries.

The US and China, the world’s biggest emitters, will make statements too, even though neither fully recognises the court’s authority.

Regenvanu told the court that states continued to emit vast amounts of greenhouse gases in spite of “increasingly dire warnings” from scientists, noting that emissions had increased by more than 50% since 1990.

I suggest that the nations being blamed stop allowing flights and shipments of goods via cargo ships to these nations, many of which have numerous airports. Let’s see how they survive, especially with not fossil fuels to power anything. Will they have enough food?

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