{"id":251477,"date":"2024-05-21T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T23:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/small-island-nations-get-big-climate-win-from-maritime-court\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T03:35:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T03:35:37","slug":"small-island-nations-get-big-climate-win-from-maritime-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/small-island-nations-get-big-climate-win-from-maritime-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Small island nations get big climate win from maritime court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Island nations in the Pacific, Caribbean and West Indies won a major international legal victory this week that puts more pressure on large governments like the European Union and China to curb their carbon emissions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">On Tuesday, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany, unanimously ruled that state parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea have an obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 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