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5.129.Thus, petitioners humbly submit that the respondent Carbon
Majors must be held accountable for their ‘doublespeak’ on climate change.
Petitioners demand an end to any deliberate obfuscation of causes, harms, and
solutions to climate change.
BRIEF STATEMENT
A.
VI
OF PETITIONERS’ POSITION
Climate science
6.1.
extracted,
The respondent Carbon Majors, together and individually, have
marketed,
and
sold a substantial percentage
of the fossil fuels
burned globally, releasing an immense amount of carbon pollution into the
Earth’s atmosphere, which is currently interfering with the climatic system.”
6.2.
There is a clear link between respondent Carbon Majors’ climate
pollution and global impacts, such as surface temperature and sea-level rise,
which in turn is resulting in climate damage in the Philippines”** and human
rights harms to Filipinos.
6.3.
As mentioned, a recent study indicates that the carbon dioxide
and methane emissions linked to 50 investor-owned Carbon Majors, including
all 47785 respondents notified in the Consolidated Reply, contributed to
roughly 16% of the global average temperature increase from 1880 to 2010,
and around 11% of the global sea-level rise during the same time frame; and
from 1980 to 2010, a time period when fossil fuel companies were acutely
aware that their products were causing global warming, these same companies
contributed approximately 10% of the global average temperature increase
and about 4% sea-level rise.”*
283 See Exhibit “VVVV” to “VVVV-14,” Tracing Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions
to Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers; Exhibit “H,” Ekwurzel, B., et al (23 April 2017), The Rise in Global
Atmospheric CO2, Surface Temperature, and Sea Level from Emissions Traced to Major Carbon
Producers; Opinion and Order, United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, 22 July 2019,
in State of Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp., supra note 26 (citing to complaint par. 7, 12, 19, 97).
284 See Exhibit “RRRRRRRR” to “RRRRRRRR-12,” Printed PowerPoint Presentation of Myles Allen,
entitled “Attributing Harm to Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Principles and Current Status;” Exhibit
“GGGGGGG” to “GGGGGGG-20,” Printed PowerPoint Presentation of Brenda Ekwurzel, entitled
“Presentation for the Republic of the Philippines Commission on Human Rights National Inquiry on
Climate Change.”
285 Currently 42 in number, see explanation in supra note 17.
286 These are the contributions of their emissions between 1980-2010 as a percentage of the overall
temperature and sea level rises from 1880-2010. See Exhibit “H,” Ekwurzel, B., et. al. (23 April 2017), The
Rise in Global Atmospheric CO2, Surface Temperature, and Sea Level from Emissions Traced to Major
Carbon Producers.
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