rights both within their territory and in other countries and to take action, separately, and jointly through international cooperation, to realize human rights universally.35 There is also ample justification for any State to act on transboundary and global matters like climate change, where harmful activity is taking place in one country, and the negative impacts are being suffered in another. According to the 2011 OHCHR report on human rights and the environment, “[o]ne country’s pollution can become another country’s environmental and human rights problem, particularly where the polluting media, like air and water, are capable of easily crossing boundaries.”36 These issues are of particular importance in the environmental context, in the light of the number and intensity of transboundary and global environmental threats to the full enjoyment of human rights. Therefore, extraterritoriality is not a bar to the Commission’s exercise of authority, considering the transboundary and global nature of climate change and other environmental problems and the associated human rights implications. The Parties Petitioners The Petitioners are the following individuals and non-governmental organizations: 1. GREENPEACE SOUTHEAST ASIA (PHILIPPINES) is a non-profit civil society organization duly registered under Philippine laws in 2000. It aims to protect the Philippines and Southeast Asia from further ecological ruin and to serve as a beacon of awareness and action in the interest of environmental protection and sustainable development. Its office address is: Room 201 JGS Building, No. 30 Scout. Tuason, Bgy. Laging Handa, Quezon City. 2. PHILIPPINE RURAL RECONSTRUCTION MOVEMENT (PRRM) was founded in 1952 to be a mass movement for the emancipation of the Filipino peasant. Having !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 35 See further O. de Schutter & A. Eide & A. Khalfan & M. Orellana & M. Salomon & I. Seiderman, Commentary to the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 34 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY, 1084, 1101-1104, 1133-1145 (2012). Available at: http://www.icj.org/wpcontent/uploads/2012/12/HRQMaastricht-Maastricht-Principles-on-ETO.pdf [hereinafter Maastricht Commentary]. 36 Human Rights Council, Analytical Study on the Relationship Between Human Rights and the Environment, Nineteenth Session, Dec. 16, 2011 at ¶ 65, http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session19/A-HRC-19-34_en.pdf (last accessed on Apr. 20, 2016). ! 12! ! ! ! ! !