Memorandum for the Petitioners| 66
5 .128 . Based on petitioners’ expert submissions summarized in
Annexes “D” and “E,” there is no evidence that respondent Carbon Majors
have adequately and transparently taken the following actions to-date:
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a)
Align their business models to a global average
temperature level that avoids or minimizes dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate system as
evidenced by the best available science and, at the very
minimum , with the politically agreed 1.5°C temperature
goal in the Paris Agreement and a carbon budget that
provides the greatest possibility of keeping warming below
1.5°C;
b)
Take responsibility for the actual, real emissions from its
products and operations, and not the company’s “net
carbon footprint”;277
c)
Adequately acknowledge the impacts of climate change on
the exercise of human rights since they first became aware
of the potential climate risks and into the future;278
d)
Renounce disinformation on climate science and
policy;279
e)
Include climate change as a human rights matter in human
rights due diligence;280
f)
Identify and assess the specific human rights impacts of
climate change arising from their operations and products,
drawing on human rights expertise, and involving
meaningful consultation with potentially affected groups
and other relevant stakeholders in the Philippines;281 and
g)
Track the effectiveness of their response by fully reporting
on their total GHGs ( including across the full life-cycle of
their products), as well as proposed actions to mitigate
their emissions into the future (including appropriate
emissions reduction targets and investments into
renewable energy). 282
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See e.g. Muttitt, G. (20 May 2019), Shell’s Emissions Still Going Up Despite Accounting Device,
available at http://priceofoil .org/2019/05/20/shelI-emissions-still-going-up-despite-accounting-trick/ (last
accessed on 12 September 2019).
278
Joint Summary of the Amicus Curiae, supra note 50, p. 64.
279
Union of Concerned Scientists, The Climate Deception Dossiers (2018), supra note 219.
280
Ibid.
281
Id. pp. 64-65.
282 Joint
Summary of the Amicus Curiae, supra note 50, p. 65.
277
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