Memorandum for the Petitioners |113 Your Honors, climate change has prejudiced most definitely against agriculture and fisheries and its population. There is prejudice to the poor. In fact, Your Honors, I should say that in the face of the recent extreme events, extreme prejudice. Many of our fellow citizens have been terminated by climate change impacts with extreme prejudice.*34 8.124.To reiterate, understanding human rights through the lens of human dignity underscores the interdependence and indivisibility of all human rights, which is how they are experienced in individual daily lives. This was manifested in all the testimonies of the community witnesses who told their stories of injustices in the context of human rights and climate change. Cc RESPONDENT MAJORS CONTRIBUTE CHANGE. CARBON SIGNIFICANTLY TO CLIMATE 8.125.As already discussed, expert witness Mr. Heede, approximately two-thirds of all carbon dioxide and methane showed that emissions from fossil fuel and cement sources since the Industrial Revolution can be traced to the production activities of the world’s ninety (90) largest oil, gas, coal, and cement entities. Of the 90 entities, 50 investor-owned companies named were impleaded herein as respondents in the Petition, and 47 investor-owned companies were notified of the Consolidated Reply.> 8.125.1. The Carbon Majors publications are part of a research-based project to detail and trace the quantities of carbon dioxide and methane from fossil fuel use and cement manufacturing attributable to specific entities that produced and marketed the carbon fuels and cement worldwide.?° 8.125.2. Mr. Heede took a historical approach and quantified and traced 65.7% of all fossil fuel and cement emissions since 1751 to the production activities of ninety (90) Carbon Majors from 1854 to 2015. Half of all fossil fuel and cement emissions -- the so-called “industrial sources” of manmade CO, and methane (excluding land use and deforestation 534 Serrano, S., TSN dated 23-24 May 2018, supra note 445, p. 144. °° See Exhibit “VVVV” to “VVVV-14,” p. 3 (Abstract); Also see Exhibit “QQQQ” to “QQQQ-11,” Profile and Statement of Richard Heede, dated 07 August 2018, p. 4. Currently, the number of respondents were reduced to 47 due to acquisitions and mergers (see supra note 17). *°Exhibit “QQQQ” to “QQQQ-11,” Profile and Statement of Richard Heede, dated 07 August 2018, p. 3.

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