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
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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.
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http://climaterights.org/database/Philippines/
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