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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.
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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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