1. Conduct an investigation into the human rights implications of climate change and ocean
acidification and the resulting rights violations in the Philippines, and whether the
investor-owned Carbon Majors have breached their responsibilities to respect the rights
of the Filipino people;
2. Monitor people and communities acutely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change;
3. Recommend that policymakers and legislators develop and adopt clear and
implementable objective standards for corporate reporting of human rights issues in
relation to the environment, with special regard for current and future climate change
impacts and GHGs from fossil fuel products;
4. Recommend that policymakers and legislators develop and adopt effective accountability
mechanisms that victims of climate change can easily access in instances of violation or
threat of violation;
5. Notify the investor-owned Carbon Majors and request the submission of plans on how
such violations or threats of violation resulting from the impacts of climate change will
be eliminated and remedied and prevented in the future; and
6. Recommend that the President call upon other States, especially where the investorowned Carbon Majors are incorporated, to take steps to prevent, remedy, or eliminate
human rights violations or threats of violations resulting from the impacts of climate
change, or seek a remedy before international mechanisms.
Petitioners further pray for such other just and equitable reliefs under the premises.
Quezon City, Philippines, September 22, 2015.
ZELDA DT SORIANO AND GRIZELDA MAYO-ANDA
Legal Representatives of the Petitioners
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