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9 Dec 2022

Author:
Students for Climate Solutions Aotearoa New Zealand & UK Youth Climate Coalition

Youth coalition asks Intl. Criminal Court to open investigation into BP over role of executives in climate crisis

"Article 15 Submission Summary: Request to Open Investigation & Request forReparations Regarding Crimes Against Humanity Of Climate Change", 8 Dec 2022

Anthropogenic climate change is a crime against humanity. BP p.l.c’s senior executives are central to the story of climate change. In this submission, it is evidenced by how BP’s senior executives have known for decades that the pursuit of their common purpose of maximising profits from petroleum expansion and extraction would inflict mass global suffering through climate change.

Students for Climate Solutions New Zealand (SFCS) and the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) are requesting the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the crime of knowingly causing and perpetuating climate change as a Crime Against Humanity under Article 15 of the Rome Statute. Specifically, the report requests an investigation into BP Senior Executives for their role in causing climate change in pursuit of their common purpose of maximising petroleum profits, and as such are seeking reparations under the loss and damage mechanisms prescribed by Article 8 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Paris Agreement...

The nature of climate change is global and the impacts shock the conscience of humanity. The suffering that has been, is currently being, and will continue to be caused by the pursuit of maximising petroleum profits, in addition to the corporate veil preventing any domestic institution from having jurisdiction to consider the acts of senior executives means the ICC is the only court with the ability to provide adequate legal remedies...

[See UKYCC page dedicated to the case here.]