Amicus Curiae Brief presented by ClientEarth 21 November 2016 113. The Interpretive Guide states that, where a business contributes or may contribute to a human rights impact, it should take action to cease or to prevent the contribution, and also use its leverage to mitigate any remaining impact (by other parties involved) to the greatest extent possible.85 114. Compliance with the Guiding Principles should be interpreted by the Commission in light of, and in accordance with, the international legal framework governing climate change, as well as other norms of international environmental law, including the precautionary principle and the polluter pays principle.86 This is consistent with Section 2 of Article 2 of the Constitution, which states that: “[t]he Philippines renounces war as an instrument of national policy, adopts the generally accepted principles of international law as part of the law of the land and adheres to the policy of peace, equality, justice, freedom, cooperation, and amity with all nations.” [Emphasis added.] 115. Accordingly, the Commission should carefully consider the implications of the globally agreed temperature target of keeping warming between 1.5 and 2 degrees celsius (and associated carbon budget) contained in the Paris Agreement. This temperature goal now represents the generally accepted definition in international law of 'dangerous climate change' that is likely to unacceptably interfere with the exercise of human rights for people around the globe (although such human rights impacts are already occurring in some regions). It therefore represents an 85 86 See note 66 at p 48. See note 68 at p 77. 55

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