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3.6 . Meanwhile, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre34
(“BHRRC”), an independent and international non-profit organization which
provides an online repository of comprehensive global business and human
rights knowledge and tracking human rights policy and performance of over
6,000 companies in over 180 countries, received eleven (11) responses, to wit:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Anglo American pic;
BHP Billiton;
BP pic;
ConocoPhillips (Texas mailing address );
Eni S.p.A.;
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (for Cyprus Amax Minerals
Company);
7. Glencore pic (for Xstrata, Switzerland);
8. PJSC LUKOIL;
9. Peabody Energy Corporation ;
10. Repsol; and
11. Rio Tinto London Ltd.
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3.7. To aid the Honorable Commission in its important task of
addressing all the issues raised by the respondents in opposition to the Petition
and set the national public inquiry in the right direction, several distinguished
international key resource persons and organizations willingly submitted their
respective amicus curiae briefs, statements, letters, and /or opinion on
different dates. Below is the list of these thirteen ( 13) legal and scientific
expert submissions, which were either provided to the Honorable
Commission, the petitioners, and /or the BHRRC.
1.
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2.
3.
4.
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Joint submission of Asia Pacific Forum of National Human
Rights Institutions (AFP) and Global Alliance of National
Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI);35
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (“ELAW” );36
ClientEarth;37
Mary Robinson Foundation Climate Justice;38
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Business and Human Rights Resource Centre’s, available at https://www. businesshumanrights.org/en/fossil -fuel -cos-respond4o-petition--with-philippines-human-rights-commission-onhuman-rights-climate-change- impacts ( last accessed on 12 September 2019 ).
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Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (AFP) and Global Alliance of National
Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI ), Amicus Brief - Human Rights and Climate Change (Submission in
Support of Petitioners), also available at
https://www. asiapacificforum . net/media/resource_fiIe/APF _Paper_Amicus Brief HR Climate_Change .pd
f ( last accessed on 12 September 2019).
36
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, Letter to Commission, dated 07 November 2016 , also available
at https:// www .business -humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/ELaw. pdf ( last accessed on 12
September 2019).
37
ClientEarth, Amicus Curiae Brief dated 21 November 2016, also available at https://www.businesshumanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/ClientEarth . pdf ( last accessed on 12 September 2019).
38
Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice , Letter, dated 04 November 2016 , also available at
https://www. businesshumanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/Mary%20 Robinson%20Foundation.pdf (last accessed on 12
September 2019).