Alliance celebrates Pacific Solidarity Festival
Members of the ICJAO alliance including Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Amnesty International, Pacific Islands Climate Action Network, 350 Pacific and others held a major flotilla calling on world leaders to support climate justice by endorsing the campaign for an advisory opinion on the human rights impacts of climate change at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) kicks off.
Pacific students, climate activists, and civil society from across the world gathered at the University of the South Pacific on the 9th of July to launch a major action as leaders convene for one of the most important PIF Leaders Summits in recent memory.
Students and campaigners are seeking to rally support from world leaders to support an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on Human Rights and Climate Change. The campaign is being led by the Vanuatu Government, alongside the Civil Society Alliance Supporting an Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Climate Change (CSO ICJAO Alliance), which represents more than 1,500 civil society groups from all regions of the world.
The action saw more than 20 boats, canoes, and SUPs traverse the Fijian coastline, unfurling an over-water banner, with a chain of participants onshore and in the water joining with banners and chants calling on leaders to support the ICJ Advisory Opinion.
