The Philippines’ government website reports a growing campaign for the world to abandon fossil fuel. Because the science is clear, it says. Moreover, there is ample proof in claims Greenpeace and other environmental advocacy groups laid against the world’s greenhouse gas emitters in 2015.
The Science is Clear, the People of the Philippines Say
The world’s most credible climate change scientists are volunteering evidence at the ongoing hearings of the Commission on Human Rights. Because under the Philippines’ constitution, it has the duty to investigate human rights violations against marginalized and vulnerable sectors of society.
“The climate crisis is a matter of justice,” and moreover, the science is clear. Greenpeace Southeast Asia executive director Yeb Saño told a press conference on Tuesday, August 28, 2018. “Therefore the case seeks to exact the giant fuel firms’ accountability for climate change, and human rights violations that the changing climate has been causing,” he affirmed.
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The First Petition of its Kind in the World, Greenpeace Says
This is a first, unique and hopefully ground-breaking case by the people suffering most from climate change. “Because nearly two-thirds of carbon dioxide emitted since the 1750s traces to the 90 largest fossil fuel and cement producers.” Greenpeace says.
The case urges the Commission on Human Rights to examine the ‘carbon majors’ responsible for carbon emissions. These pollutants are “a consequence of their extracting, producing, and selling coal, oil, gas, cement, electric power, and other raw materials.” Moreover, these activities cause “emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to accumulate and trap heat in the atmosphere.”
Furthermore, this increases global warming and drives climate change, Greenpeace adds. “The science is clear. We need to abandon fossil fuel use as quickly as possible,” its Southeast Asia executive director Yeb Saño says.
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