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and procedures for developing actions to safeguard the communities and help
them adapt to the impacts of climate change .
9.17. Finally, the Honorable Commission should produce a yearly
report summarizing its activities and findings. It should be distributed to the
relevant national and local government entities, the petitioners, and
respondent Carbon Majors and it should be made publicly available.
D.
C
The Honorable Commission should
direct respondent Carbon Majors to
submit business plans regarding
climate change that are consistent
with the UNGPs and general
principles of legal and moral
responsibility
9.18. The respondent Carbon Majors have a responsibility to take
urgent and ambitious actions that: ( a) make Filipinos aware of the dangers
posed by climate change; (b ) reduce and mitigate the risks posed to Filipinos
by their climate polluting coal, oil, and gas products; (c) advance appropriate
technical, process, or policy solutions to climate change; (d) prevent human
rights abuses and violations of the rights of Filipinos resulting from climate
change; and (e) remedy past and existing human rights harms of Filipinos
resulting from climate change.727
D. l . In order to make Filipinos aware of
the dangers posed by climate change,
the respondent Carbon Majors
must:
r
a)
Acknowledge, in their respective statements of policy
created under Principle 16 of the UNGPs , the impact of
climate change on the exercise of human rights since they
first became aware of the potential climate risks and into
the future;728
b)
Ensure climate change as a human rights matter is included
in their human rights due diligence processes undertaken
in accordance with Principle 17 of the UNGPs ;129
c)
Identify and assess the specific human rights impacts of
climate change arising from their operations and products,
in a process that draws on human rights expertise and
Joint Summary of the Amicus Curiae, supra note 50, pp . 69-70 .
Id p. 64 .
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