59 tax breaks; (e) climate finance; (f) mitigation, (g) adaptation, (h) loss and damage, and other related measures. 4.2. At the appropriate occasion, petitioners reserve the right to move for a process to enable the presentation of a comprehensive analysis on the soundness of respondents’ climate change and human rights commitments and the implementation of these. EPILOGUE The national public inquiry is happening at an opportune time—there are positive developments in the energy industry that are proving to be helpful in stalling carbon emissions from the energy sector, and a growing, global people’s movement that is demanding fossil fuels be kept in the ground. Solar energy generation, for example, grew by a third in 2015, making solar the fastest growing energy source and helping to reduce carbon emissions from the energy sector.238 At least one company has even come to the conclusion that fossil fuels will have to be kept in the ground in order to limit warming to the politically agreed levels.239 The youth pursuing climate justice in the U.S. will be going to trial against the government and fossil fuel defendant-intervenors. The judge in the proceeding wrote: “I have no doubt that the right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society. Just as marriage is the ‘foundation of the family,’ a stable climate system is quite literally the foundation ‘of society, without which there would be neither civilization nor progress.’”240 Now it is this Honorable Commission’s turn to make history. To date, 32,553 Filipinos have pledged their support for this historic crusade to champion human rights through climate justice. They are joined by 90,495 238 Note that the findings are from a BP plc report; See Renewable Enery Policy Network for the 21st Century. REN21. Renewables 2016, Global Status Report, available at http://www.ren21.net/status-ofrenewables/global-status-report/, last accessed on 08 February 2017. [“The world now adds more renewable power capacity annually than it adds (net) capacity from all fossil fuels combined.” (p. 7); and “The solar PV market was up 25% over 2014 to a record 50 GW, lifting the global total to 227 GW. The annual market in 2015 was nearly 10 times the world’s cumulative solar PV capacity of a decade earlier.” (p. 10)] 239 Total’s Integrating Climate Change to our Strategy, available athttp://www.total.com/sites/default/files/atoms/files/integrating_climate_into_our_strategy_eng.pdf, last accessed on 08 February 2017. 240 Juliana v. United States of America, et al., Opinion and Order, Judge Aiken, Case No. 6:15-cv-01517TC, 10 November 2016, available at https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit/, last accessed on 08 February 2017.

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