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Katherine Lofts, Mr. Kert Davies, Ms. Sharon Eubanks,
and Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel testified as resource persons for
the petitioners.
c.
The Honorable Commission invited the following resource
persons to guide it in different relevant topics, namely:
Professor David Estrin, Professor Cynthia Williams, Dr.
James Hansen, Professor Erin Daly, Professor Radley
Horton, and Mr. Daniel Zarrilli.
3.18. On 6-7 November 2018, the fifth inquiry hearings were
conducted in London. A total of sixteen (16) resource persons were presented
both for the petitioners and the Honorable Commission:
a.
Petitioners introduced two (2) community witnesses who
shared their stories as typhoon survivors and one as youth
who was displaced because of super typhoon Haiyan. Ms.
Mariel Trixie Bacason and Ms. Veronica Cabe testified as
community witnesses.
b.
Petitioners also presented seven (7) expert resource
persons: Mr. Mark Campanale, Mr. Andrew Grant, Prof.
Henry Shue, Dr. Roda Verheyen, Dr. Dylan Tanner, Dr.
Myles Allen, and Dr. Paul Ekins OBE. These experts
spoke about topics on: how much CO2 was released in the
atmosphere and whether supply options of Carbon Majors
were aligned with demand levels consistent with various
scenarios of carbon constraint; the ethical aspects of the
Carbon Majors’ responsibility for climate change; climate
litigation cases and their relevance to the National Inquiry;
European corporate influence on climate policy and action;
attribution science of climate change (modelling ) and
assessing these changes with future climate simulations;
and a model that contains estimates of the quantities,
locations, and nature of the world’ s oil, gas, and coal
reserves and resources.
c.
For its part, the Honorable Commission invited seven (7)
experts: Ms. Joni Pegram, Mr. Adam Matthews, Dr. Jaap
Spier, Ms. Lene Wendland, Mr. Ben Schachter, Dr. Swenja
Surminski, and Ms. Linda Siegele as its resource persons.
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3.19. The final and sixth public hearings were conducted in the
Honorable Commission’s Inquiry Hall on 11-12 December 2019. A total of
nine (9) resource persons concluded petitioners’ presentation:
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