Memorandum for the Petitioners 1155 r B. r b) The fossil fuel companies had early awareness, notice, and actual knowledge of the role of coal, oil, and gas in causing climate change and the reasonably foreseeable human rights harms resulting from its impacts;723 c) Fossil fuel companies had the opportunity to avoid or reduce those harms decades ago. Instead of reducing carbon pollution from products and activities, many of the respondent Carbon Majors knowingly advanced or promoted deliberately misleading information, casting doubt on climate science and actions. The respondent Carbon Majors have and continue to materially contribute to the climate damage and human rights impacts;724 d) The “Polluter Pays” principle is widely accepted and should be applied to respondent Carbon Majors, which reap vast profits from their polluting activities;725 e) Communities have the right to hold the respondent Carbon Majors accountable for the climate harms they are suffering; and f) In order to avoid additional liability, the respondents must take immediate and proactive measures in accordance with the actions outlined above. The Honorable Commission should host an official online repository of this National Inquiry’s full record that is searchable and accessible to all 9.6. In conducting this National Inquiry on the intertwined issues of climate change and human rights, the Honorable Commission has already taken a progressive and positive leap towards helping the Filipinos and the public, in general, who deserve to know the truth. By uploading the National Inquiry’s official transcript of stenographic notes (TSNs) in the Honorable Commission’s website,726 the Honorable Commission made it possible for Filipinos wherever situated to benefit from the petitioners’ efforts to realize the full enjoyment of their human rights by seeking freedom from the climate-polluting activities of the respondents. — — CIEL, Plan B, Joint Summary of the Amicus Curiae , supra note 50, pp. 67-71. Id 725 pp £ GANHRI, CIEL, ClientEarth, Plan B, Joint Summaty of the Amicus Curiae, supra note 50, p. 723 724 ^ 10. 726 See Transcripts of Stenographic Notes of the NICC-CHR-PH’s Public Hearings of 2018, available at http://chr.gov.ph/nicc-resources/ (last accessed on 12 September 2019).

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