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a balance of probabilities that the event has been
caused by climate change”””); and
f)
H.
Remedies
(e.g.
enforcement).”°
damages,
injunctive
relief,
and
The Honorable Commission should
recommend
that
the
Philippine
government develops a National
Action
Plan
environment,
on
and
climate
based on the UNGPs’*!
business,
change,
9,28. To petitioners’ knowledge, the Philippine government has not
embarked on the creation of a National Action Plan on business and human
rights.”>? In light of the significant harms to human rights being suffered by
the Filipino people as a result of climate change, a National Action Plan on
business and human rights should cover environmental and climate change
matters.
9.29. The Honorable Commission’s National Inquiry provides a
baseline for such a plan. The process in developing the plan should be
inclusive, ie. “go to villages, go to the barangays.””*? Among other things,
the plan needs to ensure equity on climate action and support the development
of “coherent state policy on corporate reporting on [financial and] non-
financial matters.”7*4
I.
The Honorable
recommend
Commission
that
should
governments
--
strengthen,
or
including the Philippines and other
countries
where
the respondent
Carbon Majors are domiciled and/or
operate
--
enhance,
explore new ways to fulfill their
international duty of cooperation,
including but not limited to, further
regulation of the Carbon Majors to
fully address the human _ rights
impacts of climate change
749 See Exhibit “WWWWWWWWW?"
to “WWWWWWWWW-50,” supra note 744.
750 Wewerinke-Singh, M., supra note 742, p. 9.
71 Rosales, L., TSN dated 11-12 December 2018, pp. 89-90, supra note 667.
782 For more information, see National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights, available at
https://globalnaps.org/country/philippines/ (last accessed on 12 September 2019).
753 Rosales, L., TSN dated 11-12 December 2018, p. 90, supra note 667.
754 Id, p.91.
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