The victims say the typhoon was intensified by climate change worsened by the oil and gas company’s carbon emissions.
The case is the first civil claim to directly link an oil firm’s climate impact to deaths and personal injury in the Global ...
Environmental groups say the case is the first civil claim to directly link an oil company to deaths from a past disaster in ...
The oil major says that the suggestion that it had unique knowledge about climate impacts is ‘simply not true’.
More than three years after Super Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) battered the Philippines, killing over 400 people ...
Filipino claimants are seeking financial compensation from Shell in this climate lawsuit, the first civil claim linking an oil and gas company’s actions to damage and injuries sustained by people from ...
The Philippines has spent trillions on flood-control projects, yet every typhoon season, the same scenes unfold: submerged barangays, families stranded on rooftops, classrooms turned into evacuation ...
Human-induced climate change fuelled a rare string of back-to-back typhoons that battered the Philippines this year and boosted the chances of powerful storms making landfall, a new study said on Dec.
MANILA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - The Asian Development Bank has approved a $500 million loan to support the Philippines' efforts to tackle climate change, it said on Tuesday. The loan will help accelerate ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Climate change is making the Philippines more vulnerable to tropical storms, with rising temperatures already putting the country at nearly double the risk of deadly typhoons, ...
They murdered his father, torched his neighbourhood and sent him running for his life. Rounding up as many family members as he could find, Hawali Oumar fled his hometown of Baga, in north-eastern ...