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22 سبتمبر 2015

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Greenpeace Philippines

Philippines: For the first time fossil fuel companies face national human rights complaint on climate change

Typhoon survivors and civil society groups in the Philippines…delivered a complaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) calling for an investigation into the responsibility of big fossil fuel companies for fuelling the catastrophic climate change that is resulting in human rights violations…The group is demanding an investigation into the top 50 investor-owned fossil fuel companies and their responsibility for climate impacts that endanger people’s lives and livelihoods, as well as that of future generations…The 50 companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips, are a subset of the 90 legal entities that have contributed the lion's share of cumulative global CO2 and methane emissions in the earth’s atmosphere, as identified by peer-reviewed research…

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