Australia has voted in favour of a landmark United Nations resolution spearheaded by its Pacific island neighbours to strengthen state responsibility to act on climate change.
The 193-member global body endorsed an advisory opinion provided by the world's top court on Wednesday, which notably warns a failure to curb fossil fuel production might constitute an "internationally wrongful act".
The hard-fought legal opinion from the International Court of Justice delivered in July 2025 was first conceived by a group of Pacific students and initially taken up by Vanuatu.
