Data from Submissions of Participants to the International Court of Justice Advisory Proceedings on Climate Change Law (2024)
Description
This dataset offers data from the submissions of the participants to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory proceedings of 2024 on climate change law. It was encoded from the written statements and comments of 91 states and international organizations participating in the proceedings, i.e., overall more than 10,000 pages of legal arguments. Version 1 of the dataset covers the written submissions the ICJ released after week 1 (out of 2) of the hearings (2nd - 6th December 2024), i.e., 5000+ pages. Version 2 will be added once all submissions will be released at the end of week 2 on 13 the December 2024 and cover all submissions. The submissions are available at the ICJ wegpage: https://icj-cij.org/case/187 33 central questions of international law related to the questions the United Nations General Assembly submitted to the ICJ were coded. Among them are questions such as: whether the principle of prevention of transboundary harm applies to human greenhouse gas emissions; whether the scope of the ICJ's advisory opinion is broad, going beyond the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement; whether the law of state responsibility applies in matters of climate change law. Data on participants' belonging to certain groups (e.g., countries in Annex I to the UNFCC, member states of the EU, etc.). was also encoded in the dataset, showing how answers are distributed within and among groups. The dataset thus offers a unique perspective on climate change law, states' positions on it, and consequently, the formation of customary international law. To facilitate this perspective, the dataset also contains graphs to visualize the data. For furter information, see the explanatory statement accompanying the dataset.
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