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D.8.
Respondent
Carbon
Majors’
purported commitments to human
rights
and
climate
change
are
inconsistent
with
their
business
models
5.125.Since petitioners’ submission of their Petition, Amended
Petition, and Consolidated Reply, along with other documentary exhibits,
with the Honorable Commission, several respondents have included in their
published human rights and climate change commitments more details on
strategies purporting to support the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global
temperature increase to well-below 2°C. However, the information in the
majority of the respondents’ publications do not still outline plans and actions
that the petitioners -- in line with the views of climate science and human
rights experts -- envision as adequate to address the social, economic, and
human rights implications of climate change.
A copy of a summary of respondents’ corporate statements on climate
change and human rights and their commitments, scores, and grades are
attached hereto and made integral parts hereof as Annexes “D” and “E,”
respectively.
5.126.The summary of corporate statements on climate change and
human rights includes powerful data. Eight (8) respondent Carbon Majors
signed up to the Paris Pledge for Action, demonstrating support for “meeting
or exceeding” the goal of limiting temperature rise to less than 2°C.?%
Eighteen (18) respondent Carbon Majors” are listed as UN Global Compact
participants, acknowledging the responsibilities of business to support and
respect human rights, including the rights of workers, and to protect the
environment by taking a “precautionary approach to environmental
challenges,” among other matters.?”5
5.127,.The table of commitments, scores, and grades also provides
snapshots from useful tools -- developed by UCS, CDP, and InfluenceMap -that evaluate the performance, or lack of performance in this case, of many of
the respondent Carbon Majors on matters relating to climate change.” None
of the respondent Carbon Majors are doing anywhere near enough to
address the climate crisis Filipinos are facing today.
23 Anglo American, BHB Billiton, Cemex, Eni, LafargeHolcim, Repsol, Rio Tinto, and Total are listed as
non-party stakeholders who joined the Paris Pledge for Action. See Annex “D” hereof.
2 Anglo American, BHB Billiton, BP, Cemex, Eni, Glencore, Heidlelberg Cement, Hess, Lukoil, OMV,
Repsol, Rio Tinto, Rosneft, Royal Dutch Shell, RWE, Sasol, Suncor, and Total are listed as UN Global
Compact participants. See Annex “D” hereof.
2"5 The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, available at https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-isgc/mission/principles (last accessed on 12 September 2019).
276 See Annex “E” hereof.
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