2 Mar 2017

A film in 1991, produced by Shell, shows that the oil giant has long known about the catastrophic risks of climate change…In response, Desiree Llanos Dee, Climate Justice Campaigner for Greenpeace Philippines, said: “…we must get to the bottom of what other fossil majors know and what they plan to do to avert catastrophic climate change. Shell’s empty rhetoric on climate is wholly contradicted by the core assumption underlying its business plan…and its lobbying against measures to mitigate climate change.”…Shell is one of 47 carbon majors being investigated in the world’s first national inquiry into the responsibility of the fossil fuel industry and others for human rights impacts resulting from climate change, being conducted by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines…The national inquiry in the Philippines is one of the many people-powered legal actions related to climate change initiated around the globe…