This talk interrogates how the concept of territory shapes our imaginaries of reparations for climate change under international law, and how a turn to ‘place’ might offer a different frame of reference. It turns to the oral hearings and written submissions for the much anticipated Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect to Climate Change by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The hearings for the still ongoing climate advisory opinion proceedings covers a wide range of legal matters relating to reparations for climate change. Yet, it also includes extensive references to statehood, territory and, importantly, the relations between place and people. Through a preliminary and explorative reading of the oral hearings and submissions, the talk reflects on what we might make of evocations of place. It offers as invitation to consider what happens if we ground, quite literally, legal claims to reparations in affective relations between human communities and non-human actors in ‘place’.