Environmental group Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED) on Tuesday cited Commission on Human Rights (CHR) findings on 47 fossil fuel firms liable for climate-related human rights violations against Filipinos.
Represented by Commissioner Roberto Cadiz, the CHR explained the investigation, which it took on in 2016 upon the petition of more than a dozen civil society groups and affected communities, affirmed the reality of today’s climate emergency and its largely anthropogenic nature.
“No longer can they feign ignorance or shut their eyes from the reality of climate vulnerability that communities from the Philippines and across the globe have been forced to endure,” said CEED Executive Director Gerry Arances. It also paves a path for jurisdictions across the globe to establish legal accountability by strengthening and creating legislation.
He also said states that fail to restrict the activity and pollution of fossil fuel proponents would also be failing to guard the rights of their own citizens.
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