US EditionPhilippine victims of 2021 typhoon seek compensation from Shell
Sixty-seven claimants link Shell's 2% contribution to global emissions with Typhoon Odette's damage in the first civil climate lawsuit from the Global South, advocates say.
- On Thursday, October 23, 2025, 67 Filipino claimants from the Visayas islands sued Shell, a British oil and gas company, in United Kingdom courts in the first civil claim linking corporate actions to harm in the Global South, Greenpeace Philippines said.
- In 2021, Typhoon Odette devastated General Luna, Siargao Island, killing at least 400 and affecting more than six million people, while a 2025 European Geosciences Union study linked its severity to climate change.
- The claimants seek financial compensation and injunctive relief from Shell for loss of life, injury, and property damage, supported by Greenpeace Philippines, Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, and Uplift UK.
- Shell responded that it did not possess unique climate knowledge, referencing a vast public record spanning well over 50 years and Shell's July response to allegations; analysis naming 36 companies found Shell contributed 2% to global emissions in 2023.
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PH Odette survivors sue Shell in UK over climate damage
MANILA, Philippines—More than three years after Super Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) battered the Philippines, killing over 400 people and destroying 1.4 million homes, 67 survivors are fighting back—not with relief goods or aid pleas, but with a groundbreaking legal action against one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel giants. On October 23, 2025, UK-based law firm Hausfeld served a formal Letter Before Action (LBA) to Shell’s headqua…
Philippine victims of 2021 typhoon seek compensation from Shell (World)
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. Shell says it is not legally liable for the disaster wreaked by 2021 Super Ty...
Typhoon Odette survivors to sue oil giant Shell for climate damage
MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos from the Visayas islands who suffered the wrath of Typhoon Odette in 2021 are set to sue British oil and gas company Shell before the courts in the United Kingdom for climate damage. “Napakalaking kumpanya ng Shell para banggain dahil sa pagpapatindi nila sa Super Typhoon Odette. Pero iniisip ko ‘yung kinabukasan ng magiging anak ko. Doon po ako humuhugot ng tapang,” one of the claimants, Trixy Elle, said on Thurs…
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Philippine victims of 2021 typhoon seek compensation from Shell
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.
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