Memorandum for the Petitioners| c) Respondent Carbon climate change; Majors significantly contribute d) Respondent Carbon Majors’ actions and/or inactions are linked to the climate change occurring and/or threatening to occur in the Philippines; and e) Respondent Carbon Majors are responsible, under international laws and agreements and domestic laws, to respect and protect the human rights of Filipinos in the context of climate change. 9 to The National Inquiry has the potential to shed light on who is to blame for the climate crisis, even in part, and bring attention to the enormous role of carbon producing companies. The petitioners aim to set the record straight by demonstrating that the coal, oil, and gas companies are to a significant extent responsible for the climate crisis and must take action to prevent further human rights abuses resulting from climate impacts. Climate change interferes with the enjoyment of the Filipinos’ fundamental rights. Hence, petitioners demand accountability from those who have significantly contributed to climate change— the respondent Carbon Majors herein. Til THE PROCEEDINGS 3.1. On 22 September 2015, petitioners filed the urgent and 3.2. On 10 December 2015, right after the Honorable Commission’s groundbreaking Petition against the world’s largest investor-owned fossil fuel and cement producers imploring the Honorable Commission to use its investigatory, recommendatory, and monitoring powers to look into respondent Carbon Majors’ responsibility for human rights violations or threats thereof, resulting from the impacts of climate change. For purposes of this memorandum, respondent Carbon Majors are also referred herein simply as “respondents.” announcement during the Paris Climate Change Conference”® that it would take cognizance of the Petition, pursuant to its mandate to investigate all forms of human rights violations, the Honorable Commission delineated the manner by which the investigation and/or national public inquiry would be conducted.” ?8 Held on 30 November to 12 December 2015. 2° See video on the press conference held by the Commission on Human Rights on 08 December 2016, available at https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/philippines-commission-on-human-rights-