Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Typhoon survivors and civil society groups on Tuesday, September 22, 2015, ask the Commission on Human Rights to investigate the world's top 50 petroleum companies allegedly responsible for fueling climate change impacts that endanger people’s lives and livelihoods. (Photo by Joy Anne Enriquez, UST intern/Sunnex)
TYPHOON survivors and civil society groups on Tuesday asked the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the world's top 50 petroleum companies allegedly responsible for fueling climate change impacts that endanger people’s lives and livelihoods.
The 50 companies include Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips, which are part of the 90 entities that have contributed the lion's share of cumulative global carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the Earth’s atmosphere, as identified by a peer-reviewed research published on the scientific journal Climactic Change in 2013.
The complaint, said to be the first of its kind in the world, also asked CHR to recommend to policymakers and legislators to develop and adopt effective accountability mechanisms that victims of climate change can easily access.
“From the Netherlands to the US, people are using legal systems to hold their governments to account and demand climate action. We hope that the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines will take the bold step in being the first in the world to hold big corporate polluters accountable for their contribution to the climate crisis,” said Zelda Soriano, legal and political adviser for Greenpeace Southeast Asia, one of the complainants.
Rafael Sarucam, director of Nagkakaisang Ugnayan ng mga Magsasaka at Manggagawa sa Niyugan, added urgent action on climate change is needed especially since it affects the poor and the most vulnerable sectors like farmers. (Joy Anne Enriquez, UST intern/Sunnex) source
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