5th Climate Change & Human Rights Public Hearing (Part 1 of 2)

Video | November 6, 2018

6 November 2018 — Filipino survivors of extreme weather events gave personal testimonies at a landmark inquiry to determine whether the world’s largest carbon producers are violating the human rights of communities worst affected by climate change in London.

Resource speakers:

Name	Position/Organization	Topic	Timestamp
Joni Pegram	Senior Climate Change Policy & Advocacy Adviser, Unicef UK; Independent Consultant (Child Rights/Environmen )		10:00-33:00
Dr. Paul Ekins	Co-Director of UK Energy Centre; Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Resources at University College London	He discussed a paper he co-authored, entitled “The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2°C,” published on 07 January 2015 at the Nature, an international journal of science	34:10- 1:25:15
Adam Matthews	Transition Pathway Initiative		1:26:20- 2:07:49
Dr. Roda Verheyen	Environmental, human rights, and corporate lawyer who led the case against German energy company RWE, one of the respondents in the Petition	She shared information about the three (3) climate change litigation cases she is handling, one is that of a Peruvian farmer's case against RWE, and to elaborate on the ongoing case “Urgenda” in the Netherlands which is distinct but also related and in which the relevance of human rights with respect to the impacts of climate change has just been confirmed by an appellate court in The Hague	2:10:00- 3:01:10
Dr. Jaap Spier			3:02:10- 3:41:12
Lene Wendland Ben Schachter			3:42:00- 4:08:20
Dr. Swenja Suminski			4:10:29- 5:13:49

Filipino survivors of extreme weather events gave personal testimonies at a landmark inquiry to determine whether the world’s largest carbon producers are violating the human rights of communities worst affected by climate change in London.

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