Oh, and you can’t just withdraw from the UN climate framework (looking at you America) and be like – we’re untouchable now! Because unfortunately, you remain a country of the world, impacting other countries. So the court’s opinion is that the customary obligations apply to ALL states, not just those in the UNFCC.

And as Polly also says, the ICJ’s advisory opinion is that “it is the sum of all emissions that contribute to climate change not any specific emissions” which means Australia can’t keep running around arguing, at least with any authority, that it has no responsibility for historical emissions and that our exported fossil fuel emissions ‘don’t count’ towards our climate impact.