Memorandum for the Petitioners |166 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.’® 9.36. Following the lead of young people in the Philippines (J am Climate Justice Movement)” and Vanuatu (Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change)’ and the growing number of Pacific Island Leaders,”®! 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 Justice” 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, Philippines while the Philippines adapts... will need to adapt to climate while the change, Your Honors, those who caused climate change, and I 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 environment, program or mitigate the impacts Your the must perform mitigation in accordance with what climate science provides and demands. that on Honor, we are a victim. A And not only crime has been it is my submission, Your committed against the environment and against our country and our people. And, therefore, Honor, that this party should make reparations to the victims of their actions.” - Undersecretary Segfredo R. Serrano (Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, Project Development, Research and Regulations of the Philippine Department of Agriculture), 24 May 2018 public hearing. 798 Ibid. 759 T am Climate Justice Movement Facebook page, available at https://www.facebook.com/iamclimatejustice/ (last accessed on 12 September 2019). 769 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 Communiqué, Fiftieth Pacific Islands Forum, Funafuti Tuvalu, par. 16, available at https://www.forumsec.org/wp-content/uploads/20 19/08/50th- Pacific-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 students’ competition conducted by the London School of Economics, Sterling University, and Environmental Science for Social Change, Inc., available at https://Avww. 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., et al. of Schulich School of Law entitled, “The Carbon Majors Inquiry Student Competition,” showing useful recommendations, is available at https://essc.org.ph/content/wp-content/uploads/20 19/05/Carbon-Majors-Student-Competition.pdf (last accessed 12 September 2019). 763 Serrano, S., TSN dated 23-24 May 2018, supra note 445, p. 145.