{"id":74438,"date":"2025-09-24T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/24\/vanuatu-climate-change-fossil-fuel-industry-influence"},"modified":"2025-09-24T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:00:05","slug":"vanuatu-working-toward-un-vote-aimed-at-fighting-fossil-fuel-industry-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74438","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil-fuel industry influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation, says step taken on \u2018behalf of everybody\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu is working on securing a UN vote to turn a landmark ruling on the climate crisis by the international court of justice (ICJ) into concrete political action that will fight the influence of the fossil-fuel industry and protect the globe from environmental catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort spearheaded by the tiny Pacific island nation, the ICJ issued a rare unanimous advisory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/jul\/23\/healthy-environment-is-a-human-right-top-un-court-rules\">opinion in July,<\/a> which clarified that all states are required under international law to protect the climate, prevent further harms and have a duty to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/24\/vanuatu-climate-change-fossil-fuel-industry-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation, says step taken on \u2018behalf of everybody\u2019Vanuatu is working on securing a UN vote to turn a landmark ruling on the climate crisis by the international court of justice (ICJ) into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,564,908,86,874,835,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-international-court-of-justice","category-law","category-pacific-islands","category-paris-climate-agreement","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74438\/revisions\/74439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}