A group of law students from Vanuatu and human rights lawyer Julian Aguon were awarded the Right Livelihood Award today for championing climate justice. The group, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC), pushed the issue of climate protection to the International Court of Justice, which in July issued an advisory opinion confirming that states are legally obliged to combat climate change. Founded by 27 students at the University of the South Pacific in one of the nation’s most vulnerable to climate impacts, PISFCC aimed to bring the world’s biggest problem before the world’s highest court. Often called the alternative Nobel, the Right Livelihood Award also honoured Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms, a Burmese anti-corruption group, and a Taiwanese digital democracy advocate for their contributions to social and environmental justice.