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I was invited by Ms. Desiree Llanos Dee, Climate Justice Campaigner of
Greenpeace Southeast Asia (Philippines), one of the petitioners in the human rights
and climate change case, to be a witness and resource person for the petitioners to
present the “Carbon Majors” research, which includes the following publications:
1) Richard Heede (2014) Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and
methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854-2010,
Climatic Change, vol. 122:229-241, January 2014 (online November 2013)
(Exhibit “D-3”);1 Online, with “Supplementary Materials:”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0986-y
2) Richard Heede (2013) Carbon Majors: Accounting for carbon and
methane emissions 1854-2010 Methods and Results Report, published in
2013 and re-released in April 2014 (Exhibit “D-2”);2
3) Richard Heede, Climate Accountability Institute, Press Release on
Update of Carbon Majors Project, December 2014 (Exhibit “D-1”)3;
Online: http://climateaccountability.org/pdf/Media%20Outline%20Feb15.pdf
4) Frumhoff, Peter, Richard Heede, & Naomi Oreskes (2015) The climate
responsibilities of industrial carbon producers, Climatic Change, vol.
132:157-171; online: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-015-1472-5
5) Heede, Richard, & Naomi Oreskes (2016) Potential emissions of CO2 and
methane from proved reserves of fossil fuels: An alternative analysis,
Global Environmental Change, vol. 36:12-20. Online:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378015300637
6) Ekwurzel, B., J. Boneham, M.W. Dalton, R. Heede, R.J. Mera, M.R. Allen,
& P.C. Frumhoff (2017) The rise in global atmospheric CO2, surface
temperature and sea level from emissions traced to major carbon
producers, Climatic Change, vol. 144:579-590. (Exhibit “H”);4 Online:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10584-017-1978-0.pdf
7) Richard Heede (2017) Carbon producers’ tar pit: dinosaurs beware: The
path to accountability of fossil fuel producers for climate change &
climate damages, Institute for New Economic Thinking Plenary
Conference, Edinburgh, 23 October 2017. Online:
www.climateaccountability.org/pdf/Heede%20PathToAccountability%2018Oct17.pdf.
I agreed to be a witness and resource person for the petitioners and answer in
writing questions to be asked of me. On 06 July 2018, one of the legal representatives of the petitioners, Attorney Hasminah Paudac, spoke with me via Skype and
explained to me the process of Statement-taking. Attorney Kristin Casper,
Greenpeace Canada’s litigation counsel and international legal coordinator, was
also in that call. On 10 July 2018, Ms. Anna Dominique Esmeralda, legal liaison
for the petitioners, sent the questions that I answer below. I submit this Profile and
Statement, along with my Curriculum Vitae and PowerPoint Presentation, to the
Commission on Human Rights. I commit to elaborate and clarify this Statement
during the scheduled public hearings.
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Marked as Exhibit “D-3” during the pre-marking of exhibits
Marked as Exhibit “D-2” during the pre-marking of exhibits
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Marked as Exhibit “D-1” during the pre-marking of exhibits
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Marked as Exhibit “H” during the pre-marking of exhibits
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