have a responsibility to respect human rights -- including human rights harms resulting from climate change. And this responsibility is not optional. It arises from a global standard of expected conduct. Throughout this inquiry, substantial -- if not overwhelming -- evidence have been provided to prove the Carbon Majors are in breach of their corporate obligations to respect the rights of the Filipino people, and the fundamental tenets of responsibility underlying the laws of tort in common law jurisdictions, of “non-contractual obligations” in civil law countries. The respondent Carbon Majors are violating the human rights of Filipinos and the Commission has firm grounds to stand on for issuing recommendations that the respondent companies, including their directors and officers, meaningfully align business models with keeping global temperature rise to 1.5oC, to do their part to avert the worst impacts of climate change, and that they submit their plans on how any human rights violations or threats of violation resulting from the impacts of climate change will be eliminated, remedied, or prevented in the future. To policy and law makers, the Commission may recommend that they develop and adopt effective accountability mechanisms that can be easily accessed by those whose rights under threat or have been violated. To governments, including the Philippines and other countries where the investor-owned Carbon Majors are domiciled and/or operating, the Commission may recommend that they strengthen or explore new ways to fulfill the international duty of cooperation to ensure the Carbon Majors take immediate steps to address the human rights implications of climate change. This historic national inquiry has amassed one of the largest collections of evidence on climate change, corporate responsibility, and human rights. The Commission can do the world a service and make this collection public for use by other National Human Rights Institutions, communities, and even corporations that are working to address the human rights implications of climate change. Seventy years ago when the Universal Declaration was born, it captured a broken but healing world’s imagination with its dauntless hope of saving future generations from “the scourge of war and untold sorrow.” The petitioners plant themselves at the same gates of hope, shoulder to shoulder with others around the globe who are drawing a line in the sand. From the youth in Canada and Columbia to crab fishermen in California, more and more people are standing up for their rights against some Carbon Majors. Filipino cities and municipalities experiencing climate impacts have issued resolutions in Closing Statement for the Petitioners | 7