Memorandum for the Petitioners 1166 9.35. Finally, States should, at a minimum, cooperate and implement the recommendations by the U.N. Special Rapporteurs, including the recent 2019 UN Safe Climate Report.758 9.36. Following the lead of young people in the Philippines (I am Climate Justice Movement)759 and Vanuatu (Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change)760 and the growing number of Pacific Island Leaders,761 the Honorable Commission should also recommend that the Philippines support all diplomatic and legal efforts to obtain an Advisory Opinion for the International Court of Justice762 on the obligation of States to protect the rights of present and future generations against the adverse effects of climate change. X EPILOGUE Your Honors, while the Philippines adapts ... while the Philippines will need to adapt to climate change, Your Honors, those who caused climate change, and 1 should say the industries and those countries and those governments that initiated this in the Industrial Revolution and did not institute environmental discipline so that they can have a mitigation program or mitigate the impacts on the environment, must perform mitigation in accordance with what climate science provides and demands. And not only that Your Honor, we are a victim. A crime has been committed against the environment and against our country and our people . And, therefore, it is my submission, Your Honor, that this party should make reparations to the victims of their actions.763 C r Undersecretary Segffedo Serrano R. (Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, Project Development, Research and Regulations of the Philippine Department of Agriculture), 24 May 2018 public hearing. Ibid. I am Climate Justice Movement Facebook page, available at https://www.facebook.com /iamclimatejustice/ (last accessed on 12 September 2019). 760 Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change Facebook page, available at https://www.facebook.com /PISFCC/( last accessed on 12 September 2019). 761 Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (13- 16 August 2019), Forum Communique, Fiftieth Pacific Islands Forum, Funafuti Tuvalu, par. 16, available at https://www.forumsec.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08 /50thPacific-Islands-Forum-Communique. pdf (last accessed on 12 September 2019). 762 A complementary recommendation to pursue a claim in the International Court of Justice (p. 4) was recommended by students who joined the students5 competition conducted by the London School of Economics, Sterling University, and Environmental Science for Social Change, Inc., available at https://www. business-humanrights.org/en/student-competition-what- recommendations-should-thephilippine-human-rights-commission-give-as-a-result-of-the-carbon-majors-inquiry-due- 1-march-2019 (last accessed on 12 September 2019). The winning piece by Packman, C., el ai of Schulich School of Law entitled, “The Carbon Majors Inquiry Student Competition,” showing useful recommendations, is available at https://essc.org.pli/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carbon-Majors-Student-Competition.pdf (last accessed 12 September 2019). 763 Serrano, S., TSN dated 23-24 May 2018, supra note 445, p. 145. 758 759