Amicus Curiae Brief presented by ClientEarth 21 November 2016 “[w]e will facilitate the exchange of expertise and best practice between our human rights and climate experts to build our collective capacity to deliver responses to climate change that are good for people and the planet.” 39 49. The Philippines has also:  supported inclusion of a reference to human rights in the text of the Paris Agreement;  referred to human rights in its nationally determined contribution;  referred to climate change in its national report to the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review;  sponsored the following Human Rights Council’s resolution(s) on Human Rights and Climate Change: Resolution 7/23 (2008), Resolution 10/4 (2009), Resolution 18/22 (2011), Resolution 26/27 (2014) and Resolution 29/15 (2015); and  ratified the following human rights instruments with relevance in the context of climate change: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.40 39 http://climaterights.org/our-work/unfccc/geneva-pledge/ We note that this website contains a number of useful resources regarding human rights and climate change that we suggest may be relevant to the Commission’s Investigation. 40 http://climaterights.org/database/Philippines/ 27

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