Memorandum for the Petitioners 1107 fed agriculture are especially threatened by climate change and environmental degradation.» 499 8.102. Climate-related hazards also have indirect effects on livelihoods by exacerbating other stressors. As noted by UNEP, climate change may contribute to “ ( i ) increases in the prices of food , energy, and other critical commodities; (ii) political instability and largescale conflict; and (iii) individual and household-level disturbances.» 500 r 8.103. In a country like the Philippines, where weather is becoming hotter and air-conditioning in some types of public transportation are non existent, extreme weather events pose risks on the ability of workers to earn a living. Filipinos find it more difficult, if not impossible, to work safely in extreme temperatures. Such is the challenge that community witness Mr. Ernesto Cruz,501 a jeepney driver in an urban area of Metro Manila, faces today. 8.104. As for the right to social security, which represents the right of everyone to live a life in human dignity in situations of social distress, climate change impacts exacerbate a wide range of pre-existing social issues.502 10. r The right to equality and non discrimination 8. 105. The right to equality and non-discrimination is also a tenet of international human rights law protected in the UDHR, ICCPR, and ICESCR, all of which recognize that the rights enumerated therein must be exercised and protected without discrimination of any kind.503 8.106. Recognizing that certain groups are more likely to endure violations of their human rights (e.g., women, children, and indigenous peoples), the UN has established more detailed frameworks for the protection of these groups - specifically: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Woman (CEDAW), the Convention on the Lofts, K ., supra note 375, p. 9, citing Javier Bomstein Ortega & Christine Klauth, Climate Landscape Analysis for Children in the Philippines (Makati City: UNICEF Philippines, 2017), p. 20. 500 Ibid., citing UNEP, Climate Change and Human Rights ( Nairobi: UNEP, 2015) p. 8. 501 Exhibit “HH” to “HH-2,” supra note 14; also see Testimony of Mr. Ernesto Cruz, TSN dated 27-28 March 2018, pp. 157 166, also available at http://chr.gov.ph/wp-content/ uploads/2019/04/NICC TSN March-27 to 28 2018-Metro Manila-Philippines.pdf (last accessed on 12 September 2019). 502 Lofts, K ., supra note 375, p. 10. 503 UN GAOR, 3 d Sess, Supp No 13, UN Doc A/810 ( 1948) at Arts 1 and 2 ( hereinafter, “ UDHR”); International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 16 December 1966, 999 UNTS 171 at Art 2( 1 ) (hereinafter, “ ICCPR”). 499 - - - - - - -