In a landmark advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice also said high-emissions countries may need to pay reparations.By Bob Berwyn, Katie SurmaTHE HAGUE, Netherlands—Tuesday’s landmark advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change came as residents of some island nations are already “scraping barnacles off our grandfathers’ graves” as sea-level rise accelerates, said Julian Aguon, an Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer from Guam, in a poem he recited outside the Peace Palace as the judges started their two-hour presentation.

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