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The classroom video that turned climate claims into a legal duty

The classroom video that turned climate claims into a legal duty

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Law students in Fiji convinced a minister to ask the world’s top court one question: what must states do?

The classroom video that turned climate claims into a legal duty

In this episode, we follow how a short lecture video and a classroom argument became the seed of an unprecedented legal campaign. The episode traces the students’ steps from a university course to a minister’s office, and asks how a legal reframe changed the pathway for climate action. What did they do next to turn that question into a vote by 193 nations?

Person: Justin Rose
Organization: Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC)
Person: Ralph Regenvanu
Date: February 2019
Event: Request for an International Court of Justice advisory opinion

- A professor posted a video of Vanuatu’s foreign-affairs minister on a course platform and students watched it in February 2019.
- Twenty-seven law students formed PISFCC inside the class with no institutional funding or NGO backing identified in the record.
- The students drafted an argument reframing climate harm as a human-rights issue and proposed asking the ICJ for an advisory opinion.
- They arranged a meeting with Minister Ralph Regenvanu, presenting the classroom argument to a sitting government official.
- Over the next four years the students built political support across Pacific Islands Forum summits and international forums to bring the question to the UN and the ICJ.

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