Philippine victims of a 2021 typhoon are seeking compensation from energy giant Shell for damage that they say was intensified by climate change worsened by the oil and gas company's carbon emissions.

By Shreya Dasgupta Nearly 70 Filipinos affected by a deadly 2021 typhoon are planning to sue oil giant Shell in its home country of the U.K. for the damages they suffered. Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Odette,

The lawsuit centers on Philippine laws stating that citizens have the right to a healthy environment. Dozens of survivors of a “super typhoon” that struck the Philippines are suing fossil fuels giant Shell for its role in causing the climate emergency in a landmark lawsuit.

A fast-moving typhoon is barreling across the central Philippines after slamming ashore overnight, leaving at least two people dead, setting off flash floods that trapped residents on roofs and engulfed cars in two villages,

The case is the first civil claim to directly link an oil firm’s climate impact to deaths and personal injury in the Global South, its backers say

Philippine victims of a 2021 typhoon are seeking compensation from energy giant Shell for deaths and damage that they say were intensified by climate change partly resulting from the oil and gas company's carbon emissions.

Environmental groups say the case is the first civil claim to directly link an oil company to deaths from a past disaster in the Global South.

The oil major says that the suggestion that it had unique knowledge about climate impacts is ‘simply not true’.

THE approach of typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) has brought Central Visayas’ transportation network to a near standstill, with sea and air travel suspended and provinci