I will believe that Binoy is serious about all this, when his attention shifts away from Australia, which is not even an emissions rounding-error, and focuses squarely on the Chinese leviathan, by far the world's glutton for coal consumption and CO2 production.

Australia's absurd self-flagellation over its Pacific "climate" errors is performative theatre for the upper classes. As is the upcoming "reform" roundtable. They completely lack interest in what's going down for ordinary Australians. Their world-level egotism is something to wonder at.

The “right” to a safe climate.

The "climate emergency”.

“ ….protecting and fulfilling substantive rights regarding the climate “emergency”.

“ … obligations towards vulnerable groups”.

Only lunatics and unelected judges could invent nonsense like that.

I can just see the “States” buckling down to that twaddle - not! Albanese, Starmer and the other gutless wonders, yes; Trump, never.

All the laughable ICJ can do is hand down “advisory opinions”, and I'm sure they will be told where to put those opinions.

As for Vanuatu, they should be using the ‘French Connection” with regard to their invented "rights ".

The author admits that the rubbish about obligations is only an “opinion”; and that's where the silly saga should end. If these whingeing countries can't get what they falsely claim they are entitled to, on their own, that's their problem.

“The ICJ proved dismissive of arguments”, according to the author, and the accused should come back at them with the same attitude.

The climate hoax has always been, and all always will be, an opportunity for coercive behaviour by failed states against successful countries who owe them nothing.

Contributing to the on-going funding for that gravy train is all these "experts" ever do. How about putting these parasites to the test for merit ?

Well it all sounds like a proposal for a Monty Python episode.
Having been in Vanuatu, we could all make claim on them.
The traffic is pretty intense.
Anyway the last I heard there has not yet been a demonstrated accepted
proof that global warming is caused by human generated co2 and is real.
Even the IPCC only talks of probabilities.

Looks like a honey pot for lawyers.