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8.170.In order to effectively comply with the UNGPs, the respondent
Carbon Majors should prepare and publish detailed business plans
describing how they will adjust their operations and activities so as to
avoid infringing on human rights and remedy the human rights harms
that have occurred.5°
8.171.To
reiterate,
based
on
petitioners’
expert
submissions
summarized in Annexes “D” and “E” and in Part V D.8 hereof, there is no
evidence that respondent Carbon Majors have adequately and transparently
taken the following actions to-date:
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,” which is defined as the emissions per
unit of energy the company sells;°!!
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;$!
d)
e)
f)
Renounce
policy;*!?
disinformation
on
climate
science
and
Include climate change as a human rights matter in human
rights due diligence;$!
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;°'> and
610 Joint Summary of the Amicus Curiae, supra note 50, p. 65.
611 Muttitt, G. (20 May 2019), Shell’s Emissions Still Going Up Despite Accounting Device, available at
http://priceofoil.org/2019/05/20/shell-emissions-still-going-up-despite-accounting-trick/ (last accessed on
06 September 2019).
612 Joint Summary of the Amicus Curiae, supra note 50, p. 64.
613 Union of Concerned Scientists, The Climate Deception Dossiers (2018), supra note 219.
814 bid.
615 Id. pp. 64-65.
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