56 Honorable Commission -- such as extrajudicial killings, displacement, and reproductive health -- the climate crisis is a human rights crisis of “domestic and/or international implication/importance.”227 The petitioners will continue to treat this proceeding, which is of great public interest in the Philippines and globally, as a transparent and inclusive process, and encourage the respondents to do the same. D. There is inadequate information of whether respondents’ business models are aligned with the Paris Agreement. 3.9. The submissions to the BHRRC give the impression that many of respondents intend to take action to address climate change. Some have “committed to a safe and stable climate in which temperature rise is limited to under 2 degrees Celsius”228 in the Paris Pledge for Action. This raises two important issues for the Honorable Commission’s consideration. 3.10. First, the companies must show that their activities and plans match their stated positions. There is evidence that, if unchecked, the fossil fuel producers’ plans could contribute to overshooting the “politicallyagreed”229 temperature goals of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C2°C, as set out in the Paris Climate Agreement.230 3.11. Second, the petitioners are aware that major fossil fuel companies have known about the risks of climate change for decades, yet have continued a business-as-usual approach of extracting more and more fossil fuels to be sold and burned. Some even developed, or participated in, campaigns to deliberately sow confusion about climate science and block action to address climate change.231 227 Sections 3, Rule 7 of the Omnibus Rules of the Commission. Paris Pledge for Action, available at http://parispledgeforaction.org/, last accessed on 08 February 2017. A number of the respondents joined the pledge (see http://parispledgeforaction.org/whos-joined/, last accessed on 06 February 2017). See also UNFCCC, Global Climate Action, available at http://climateaction.unfccc.int/, last accessed on 08 February 2016 (captures the commitments to climate action by companies, cities, subnational, regions, investors, and civil society organizations). 229 “Politically-agreed” means that the temperature goals of 1.5 °C/ 2 °C that were agreed by state parties but not necessarily based on the best-available science. See Our Children’s Trust’s amicus submission dated 06 December 2016. 230 See McGlade, C. and Ekins, P., The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C, Nature, 08 January 2015, available at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v517/n7533/full/nature14016.html, last accessed on 06 February 2017. [“Our results suggest that, globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves should remain unused from 2010 to 2050 in order to meet the target of 2 °C. We show that development of resources in the Arctic and any increase in unconventional oil production are incommensurate with efforts to limit average global warming to 2 °C.”] 231 Union of Concerned Scientists (July 2015). The Climate Change Dossiers, available at http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/07/The-Climate-Deception-Dossiers.pdf, last accessed on 06 February 2017; Annex “B” opinion by the Center for International Environmental Law; Annex “E” to the Petition. 228