{"id":44233,"date":"2022-05-07T01:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/filipino-inquiry-finds-big-polluters-morally-and-legally-liable-for-climate-damage"},"modified":"2022-05-07T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:25:06","slug":"filipino-inquiry-finds-big-polluters-morally-and-legally-liable-for-climate-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44233","title":{"rendered":"Filipino inquiry finds big polluters \u2018morally and legally liable\u2019 for climate damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report on effects of Typhoon Haiyan says fossil and cement firms engaged in \u2018wilful obfuscation\u2019 of science<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s most polluting companies have a moral and legal obligation to address the harms of climate change because of their role in spreading misinformation, according to an inquiry brought about by Filipino typhoon survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the long-awaited report published on Friday, which concludes that coal, oil, mining and cement firms engaged in \u201cwilful obfuscation\u201d of climate science and obstructed efforts towards a global transition to clean energy, could add fuel to climate lawsuits around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/filipino-inquiry-finds-big-polluters-morally-and-legally-liable-for-climate-damage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report on effects of Typhoon Haiyan says fossil and cement firms engaged in \u2018wilful obfuscation\u2019 of scienceThe world\u2019s most polluting companies have a moral and legal obligation to address the harms of climate change because of their role in spreading &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,53,55,2645,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-human-rights","category-philippines","category-typhoon-haiyan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44234,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233\/revisions\/44234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}