{"id":43299,"date":"2018-11-16T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=event&p=43299"},"modified":"2023-03-17T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T15:56:52","slug":"inquiry","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/events\/inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"National Inquiry on Climate Change, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines London Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 6 to 8 November 2018, LSE hosted the UK hearings of an inquiry seeking to attribute the impacts of climate change to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement producers.<\/p>\n

The inquiry was initiated in 2015 with a petition by a group of Filipino citizens and civil society organisations, after a series of particularly violent typhoons hit the Philippines, causing widespread loss of life and damage to property and livelihoods.<\/p>\n

The petitioners asked the Philippines Human Rights Commission<\/path><\/svg><\/a> to investigate the responsibility of the so-called ‘Carbon Majors’ for human rights violations resulting from these impacts. Their arguments rely on a study<\/a> by Richard Heede, which attributes the majority of cumulative global carbon dioxide and methane emissions since the Industrial Revolution to the largest producers of crude oil, natural gas, coal and cement.<\/p>\n

Video recording of the hearings (see below for timings of presentations):<\/h3>\n

Day 1: 6th November 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n