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The expert resource persons were Dr. Gerry Bagtasa, Dr.
Peter Frumhoff, Ms. Rosalina De Guzman, Dr. Laura
David, Dr. Perry Alifio, Dr. Maria Lourdes San DiegoMcGlone, Dr. Victorino Molina, and Ms. Lisa Anne
Hamilton.
3.15. The second public hearings were similarly held in the
Honorable Commission’s Inquiry Hall on 23 and 24 May 2018.
The
petitioners presented a total of thirteen (13) resource persons:
a.
Seven (7) community witnesses who spoke about the
concerns of fishermen, small business owners selling fish
(consignation), and urban poor victims of typhoon Ondoy
(“Ketsana”) in Marikina and Rizal.
The community
witnesses presented were Mr. Pablo Rosales, Mr. Jonathan
Delos Reyes, Mr. Pablo Taon III, Ms. Francia Encinas, Mr.
Isagani Molina, and Mr. RJ De Ramos.
Six (6) expert resource persons who discussed the liability
or accountability of respondent Carbon Majors; the legal
framework of human rights responsibility of transnational
corporations; an analysis of Inter-American Court’s human
rights opinion on a healthy environment; and climate
change impacts on the agriculture sector, fish and seaweed
supplies, reef ecology, and food chain supply in relation to
Philippines’ food security. The expert witnesses were Mr.
Carroll
Muffett,
Dr.
Michael
Addo,
Undersecretary
Segfredo Serrano of the Department of Agriculture, Dr.
Vincent
Hilomen,
Mudjekeewis Santos.
Dr.
Marcos
Orellano,
and
Dr.
3.16. On 29 and 30 August 2018, another round of public hearings was
held in the Honorable Commission’s Inquiry Hall for the scheduled third
public inquiry hearings. Fourteen (14) resource persons from different cities
and countries testified:
Six (6) community witnesses shared their stories and
concerns. A transgender super typhoon Haiyan survivor
shared her concerns on how climate change compounded
gender-based discrimination; fisherfolks and farmers from
Capalonga, Camarines Norte also narrated how their lives
were impacted; and community witnesses from tribes
living in Ifugao Province articulated how climate change
impacted
their rice terraces
in Banawe,
which
in turn
adversely affected their cultural traditions. The petitioners