3rd Climate Change & Human Rights Public Hearing (Part 4 of 4)

Video | August 30, 2018

30 August 2018 - Some of the world’s most highly-regarded climate change science, policy, research, and legal experts appeared as witnesses in the hearings by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) on the responsibility of 47 fossil fuel companies for the global climate crisis.

Resource speakers:

 

Name

Position/Organization

Topic

Timestamp

Dr. Jay Jadloc

National Chair, Climate Change Committee of the Philippine College of Physicians and Foundation

He discussed the impact of the climate crisis in the carnal human body and to expound on the pathophysiology of heat stress, air pollution effects, and zika virus

2:19 - 56:00

Glenn Hodes

Climate policy and development expert

He shared his expertise on the subject of valuing climate change impacts, its role as a risk multiplier for agricultural livelihoods, and policies for promoting more accountability to close gaps in financing and implementing appropriate responses

56:00 - 1:34:00

Sophie Marjanac

Lawyer, Climate and Financial Accountability Projects, ClientEarth

She shared their studies on “Acts of God, Human Influence, and Litigation” and “Extreme weather event attribution science and climate litigation: an essential step in the causal chain?”

1:34:00 - 2:37:00

Carroll Muffett (intervention)

   

2:38:00-

2:44:00

Some of the world’s most highly-regarded climate change science, policy, research, and legal experts appeared as witnesses in the hearings by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) on the responsibility of 47 fossil fuel companies for the global climate crisis.