51 Modesty aside, we continue to make boats and we have given boats to those areas that are usually flooded. But our efforts are not enough. People living near the rivers are growing in numbers. Typhoons are getting stronger, floods are getting more severe. When will this end? What will happen to the people? Do we just need to undertake rescue operation or must this end? There must be a long-term solution to this problem. That is all. Thank you for your time.245 In a macro analysis, these individual experiences taken together exacerbate underdevelopment and hampers development. Susceptibility to repetitive extreme weather events render development efforts to alleviate poverty an exercise in futility. These in turn, have catastrophic effects on many direct and indirect factors of economic growth, potentially undoing current progress and undermining prospects. ix. Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination Article 2 (1) of the ICCPR and Article 2 (2) of the ICESR guarantee non-discrimination in the enjoyment of rights of all persons. Climate change infringes on the right to equality and non-discrimination because, as the IPCC reports, people who are already socially, economically, or otherwise marginalized are the most vulnerable to its impacts due to their high dependence on natural resources, heightened exposure to climate change impacts, and lack of resources to adapt.246 These vulnerable sectors include women, children, indigenous peoples, older adults, people living in poverty, and members of the LGBTQIA+, among others. Indeed, segments of the population already in vulnerable situations owing to geography, poverty, gender, age, indigenous or minority status, and disability, among others, are the ones most acutely affected.247 a. Women The IPCC stresses that “existing gender inequalities are increased or heightened by climate-related hazards” and that these “gendered impacts result from customary and 245 T.S.N. of the Second Inquiry Hearing dated 23-24 May 2018, at 244-245. 247 United Nations General Assembly, Human Rights and Climate Change, U.N. Doc. A/HRC/RES/41/21 (July 12, 2019); United Nations Human Rights Council, Human Rights and Climate change, HRC/ RES/10/4 (Mar. 25, 2009) (The Human Rights Council also recognizes that environmental damage, not solely due to climate change, is similarly felt most acutely by those segments of the population already in vulnerable situation); see Human Rights and the Environment, U.N. Doc. A/HRC/RES/16/11 (Apr. 12, 2011). 246 IPCC, AR5 WGII, supra note 159; Joint Summary of the Amicus Curiae dated 19 March 2018, supra note 61, at 28.