of losing loved ones, homes, farms—almost everything—during strong typhoons, droughts, and other weather extremes, as well as the everyday struggle to live, to be safe, and to be able to cope with the adverse, slow onset impacts of climate change, are beyond numbers and words. Climate change interferes with the enjoyment of our fundamental rights as human beings. Hence, we demand accountability of those contributing to climate change. A recent research endeavour, undertaken by Mr. Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute, quantified and traced “for the first time the lion’s share of cumulative global CO2 and methane emissions since the industrial revolution began to the largest multinational and state-owned producers of crude oil, natural gas, coal and cement.”7 These producers are collectively known as the ‘Carbon Majors’ and the same term shall be used in this Petition. The investor-owned, i.e., publicly traded, Carbon Majors, some of which have operations or a presence in, or a substantial connection to the Philippines, are listed in Table 1.                                                                                                                         7 R. Heede, Carbon Majors: Accounting for Carbon and Methane Emissions 1854-2010, Methods and Results Report (Apr. 7, 2014), http://climateaccountability.org/pdf/MRR%209.1%20Apr14R.pdf, at 5 (last accessed June 15, 2015) at 5 [hereinafter Methods and Results Report]. Note that there are other reports concerning corporate GHG emissions. See J. Moorhead & T. Nixon, Global 500 Greenhouse Gases Performance 2010-2013: 2014 Report on Trends (Dec. 2014), http://www.bsdconsulting.com/bsd-files/news-downloadable-pdfs/global-500-greenhousegases-performance-trends-2010-2013.pdf (last accessed June 15, 2015).             3