Statement of Resource Person, Dylan Tanner
6 November 2018
Republic of the Philippines Commission on Human Rights
Petition requesting for investigation of the responsibility of the Carbon
Majors for human rights violations or threats of violations resulting from the
impacts of climate change
Statement of Resource Person Dr. Dylan Tanner, Executive Director,
InfluenceMap
November 6th, 2018
1) Background
1. In September 2015 Greenpeace Southeast Asia-Philippines, together with
thirteen (13) non-profit organizations and eighteen (18) concerned citizens,
mostly at the frontlines of climate impacts in the Philippines, filed a Petition
before the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines against fortyseven (47) multinational coal, oil, gas, and cement companies (“Carbon
Majors”) including BHP, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ENI, ExxonMobil,
Glencore, OMV, Repsol, Sasol, Shell, Suncor, Total, and RWE. They
requested the Commission to investigate on the responsibility of the Carbon
Majors for human rights violations or threats of violations resulting from the
impacts of climate change. The following is a testimony Statement
submitted to support this Petition at a public inquiry session at the London
School of Economics from November 6-8, 2018.
2) About InfluenceMap
1. This Statement is submitted by Dr. Dylan Tanner, Executive Director of
UK-based nonprofit think tank InfluenceMap CIC, Registered Office: 20-22
Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, UK Company Number: 9480976. Dr.
Tanner’s CV is submitted separately as an attachment.
2. InfluenceMap maintains a public facing analysis platform detailing how the
world’s leading corporations and the trade associations/lobbyists they fund
are influencing and impacting the implementation of policy and regulations
around the world designed to deal with climate change. This includes those
policies which seek to implement the targets of the Paris Agreement,
established in 2015 by the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) and dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions
mitigation, adaptation, and finance.
3. InfluenceMap’s activities are funded by philanthropic foundations (KR
Foundation, European Climate Foundation, Wallace Global Fund, Sainsbury
Families Charitable Trust and others) and its content is freely available and
intended to better inform various stakeholders through clear, data-driven and
factual analysis on climate-related policy lobbying by corporations.
4. These stakeholders include: campaign groups; shareholders of the
corporations in the form of pension funds; investment advisors and investor
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