14 On 21 April 2016, Petitioners submitted their Amended Petition, after having been granted leave by the Inquiry Panel to amend their original Petition dated 22 September 2015. On 9 June 2016, the Inquiry Panel ordered the Petitioners “to observe the formatting requirements under Supreme Court A.M. No. 11-9-4-0SC, dated 13 November 2012, otherwise known as the ‘Efficient Use of Paper Rule,’ for pleadings, motions, and similar papers.” On 21 July 2016, Petitioners submitted their correctly-formatted Petition, dated 9 May 2016. On the same day, the Inquiry Panel sent copies of the Petition by registered mail to the 47 Respondents,25 enjoining them to submit their Answers to the Petition within fortyfive days from receipt thereof. On various dates, the Inquiry Panel received a total of sixteen notices and responses to its communications, consisting of return to sender advisories, notices of non-participation, motions to dismiss, a letter acknowledging the issue of climate change with corresponding information on corporate social responsibility programs, and an “Opposition.” Meanwhile, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre26 (BHRRC), an independent and international non-profit organization which provides an online repository of comprehensive global business and human rights knowledge and tracking human rights policy and performance of over 6,000 companies in over 180 countries, was able to gather eleven responses, from the following parties: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Anglo American plc; BHP Billiton; BP plc; ConocoPhillips (Texas mailing address); Eni S.p.A.; Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (for Cyprus Amax Minerals Company); Glencore plc (for Xstrata, Switzerland); PJSC LUKOIL; 25 From the original fifty-two (52) initially identified/included by Greenpeace, et al. in their Petition dated 22 September 2015. 26 Business and Human Rights Resource Centre’s Repository, available at https://www.businesshumanrights.org/en/fossil-fuel-cos-respond-to-petition-with-philippines-human-rights-commissionon-human-rights-climate-change-impacts (last accessed Sep. 12, 2019).