The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an advisory opinion on climate change and (for some reason) military cyber operations. Apparently they’re linked…
The opinion states that countries must give greater weight to environmental concerns when conducting cyber warfare. As one analyst puts it:
“With respect to cyber operations, many such operations might have impacts on the environment: cutting power to military installations that may also impact civilian infrastructure controlling the environment; shutting down government and military systems that share information regarding environmental controls, such as garbage and sewage collection; and with the greater inclusion of cyber to facilitate AI targeting systems, the impact of targeting operations on the environment more generally. In each of these cases, a proportionality analysis would certainly need to be completed by the planners and commanders of such operations.”
Massively slowing down the UK’s cyber capabilities…
The UK Government can ignore ICJ advisory opinions – they’re not binding – but under the reign of Starmer and Hermer, Labour took an advisory opinion on the status of the Chagos islands to the extreme. Burnham would be well advised to ditch Labour’s bonkers obsession with international law…
