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Haiyan, the Hunger Games and human rights – Climate Weekly

May 13, 2022
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It’s ten years for the reason that first Starvation Video games movie got here out. 9 since Hurricane Haiyan devastated the japanese Philippines, killing 6,000 folks and making tens of millions homeless.

In 2018, I heard Haiyan survivor and analysis nurse Marielle Bacason testify about her expertise in a London college classroom. She likened the town of Tacloban she fled to -apocalyptic dystopia of blockbuster fiction.

The Fee on Human Rights of the Philippines was calling “carbon majors” – 47 of the most important historic company polluters – to account for the human price of their emissions.

Its report has lastly landed. These massive coal, oil and cement firms acted “immorally” at finest in sowing local weather disinformation and delaying motion on emissions, it argued. They may very well be answerable for reparations – notably these increasing fossil gas manufacturing.

“The period the place the fossil gas trade and its backers can get away with and revenue from their poisonous practices is coming to an finish,” mentioned Yeb Saño, head of Greenpeace Southeast Asia and a petitioner behind the inquiry.

Nicely, possibly. With oil promoting for $100 a barrel, the trade hasn’t run out of street but. Saudi Aramco overtook Apple because the world’s most dear firm this week, its inventory having risen 27% to this point in 2022.

This week’s information…

…and remark

Massive Oil can outspend any variety of environmental watchdogs and that’s not its solely benefit. The possibilities of local weather successful in court docket rely closely on the jurisdiction.

Whereas campaigners have notched up a few landmark victories within the Netherlands, say, within the Philippines itself analysts see little prospect of motion.

And fossil gas traders have recourse to secretive tribunals to problem authorities local weather insurance policies that devalue their belongings.

$340 billion

The estimated worth of oil and gasoline belongings protected by worldwide treaties towards authorities intervention

Whether or not or not traders sue for damages by these mechanisms, the latent risk has a chilling impact on policymakers.

Mozambique and Guyana are among the many nations most uncovered to litigation danger, their gasoline and oil discoveries too priceless to be left within the floor.

They’re additionally house to communities weak to intensifying storms, droughts and floods. Communities that see little of the useful resource wealth and far of its dangerous penalties.

If worldwide treaties stand for something, it ought to be folks, not fossil gas earnings.

Supply: Climate Change News

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