The report is a searing indictment of the largest fossil fuel producers which the inquiry found to have “engaged in willful obfuscation of climate science” that prejudiced the public’s right to make informed decisions about their products and concealed the “significant harm” these had on the environment and climate system.
“Because it is generally viewed that climate change is a type of environmental harm, the human rights obligations in environmental harm also generally apply to climate change,” the report said. This included massive climate denial campaigns led by the American Petroleum Institute, which published a book in 1996 that tried to argue that there was no conclusive scientific evidence that climate change was driven by man-made activities and that there was no basis to shift to renewables.
In publicizing the report, the commission hopes to provide a template for the public should they demand compensation for present and future climate harms as well as a roadmap of action for governments to fully transition to a more sustainable economy.
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