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9. Peabody Energy Corporation;
10. Repsol; and
11. Rio Tinto London Ltd.
On 2 December 2016, Petitioners filed a Manifestation and Motion to Submit a Consolidated
Reply on or before 14 February 2017.
On 13 February 2017, the Inquiry Panel received Petitioners’ Consolidated Reply, dated
10 February 2017.
On 16 March 2017, the Inquiry Panel issued a Notice, enjoining “parties who have not
responded to the Petition, as well as those who have earlier filed their responses by way
of letters, motions, manifestations, or other pleadings, to file, on or before 5 May 2017,
their answers, rejoinders, or other submissions” to either the Petition or Consolidated Reply.
The Inquiry Panel also encouraged interested stakeholders to submit Amicus Curiae briefs.
The Inquiry Panel received Amicus Curiae briefs from the following individuals and institutions:
1. Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) and
Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI);27
2. Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL);28
3. ClientEarth;29
4. Environment Law Alliance (ELAW);30
5. Dr. James Hansen, Director of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions
Earth Institute, Columbia University;31
27
Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) and Global Alliance of National
Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), Amicus Brief–Human Rights and Climate Change (Submission
in Support of Petitioners), available at https://www.asiapacificforum.net/media/resource_file/APF_
Paper_Amicus_Brief_HR_Climate_Change.pdf (last accessed Nov. 7, 2019).
28
Center for International Environmental Law, Opinion of the Center for Environmental International Law
In Support of Petitioners, dated 09 February 2019, available at https://www.business-humanrights.
org/sites/default/files/documents/CHR-NI-2016-0001%20CIEL%20Opinion%2010.2.17.R.pdf (last
accessed Nov. 7, 2019).
29
ClientEarth, Amicus Curiae Brief, dated 21 November 2016, available at https://www.businesshumanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/ClientEarth.pdf (last accessed Nov. 7, 2019).
30
Letter from Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide to Honorable Chairman Jose Luis C. Gascon
and Fellow Commissioners, Commission on Human Rights (Nov. 7, 2016) (available at https://www.
business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/ELaw.pdf [last accessed Nov. 7, 2019]).
31
James Hansen, Amicus Submission in Support of the Petition, dated 28 August 2017, available
at
https://www.business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/2017.08.28_Jim.Hansen.
Amicus_Comm_Human%20Rights_0.pdf (last accessed Nov. 7, 2019); also see Our Children’s
Trust, Amicus Curiae Brief.
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