Annex to CIEL Opinion in Support of Petitioners’
Oil Industry Knowledge of and Responses to Carbon Risk
and its Relevance to the Responsibilities of Carbon Majors under Human Rights
and other regimes
Submitted for the Consideration of the
Government of the Philippines Commission on Human Rights
February 9, 2017
“He who can but does not prevent, sins.”
--Antoine Loysel (1607)1
“Victory Will Be Achieved When … Average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate
science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the ‘conventional wisdom’ [and]…Those promoting
the Kyoto treaty on the basis of extant science appear to be out of touch with reality.”
--American Petroleum Institute (1998)
Franck Latty, “Actions and Omissions” in The Law of International Responsibility 355, (James Crawford, Alain
Pellet & Simon Olleson eds. 2010) (quoting Antoine Loysel, 1607. (“Qui peut et n’empesche, pesche.”)).
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