Commission on Human Rights

To: Commissioners, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines Hon. Jose Luis Martin C. Gascon, Chairman Hon. Karen S. Gomez Dumpit, Commissioner Hon. Gwendolyn Ll. Pimentel-Gana, Commissioner Hon. Leah C. Tanodra-Armamento, Commissioner Hon. Roberto Eugenio T. Cadiz, Commissioner chairgascon.chr@gmail.com kgdumpit@yahoo.com gpgchroffice@gmail.com chrp.leaharmamento@gmail.com atty.robertocadiz@yahoo.com Re: Amicus Submission in support of the PETITION Requesting for Investigation of the Responsibility of the Carbon Majors for Human Rights Violations or Threats of Violations Resulting from the Impacts of Climate Change This is to offer, for your consideration by way of an amicus brief, supplementary material in support of my previously submitted expert opinion. I write here in my personal capacity. As before, my expert opinion is offered in support of the PETITION Requesting for Investigation of the Responsibility of the Carbon Majors for Human Rights Violations or Threats of Violations Resulting from the Impacts of Climate Change. My previously submitted opinion was in the form of a declaration in support of an Amicus submission of Dec. 6, 2016 by the nonprofit group Our Children’s Trust. My declaration was completed on Aug. 19, 2016 and was submitted to the Commission in conjunction with the OCT submission. I hereby reaffirm, and incorporate by reference, the analysis and opinion of my earlier declaration, and I attach it hereto as Exhibit A.1 1 By this I also reaffirm and reincorporate by reference two earlier works by scientific teams that I headed, which works I incorporated by reference in my earlier declaration. For the Commission’s convenience these are: James Hansen, et al., Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature, PLOS ONE (2013) (hereinafter, “Dangerous Climate Change”) and James Hansen, et al., Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence From Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations That 2 ◦C Global Warming Could Be Dangerous, Atmos. Chem. Phys. (2016)(hereinafter, “Ice Melt”). See my Aug. 19, 2016 declaration, attached hereto as Exhibit A, at footnotes ##2 and 4. As well, these papers are available, respectively, at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081648 and at http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/.