weather-related events and expected to increase.63 However, a generalized sense of loss and solastalgia (emotional suffering caused by environmental harm) occurs across the range of individuals whose land, surrounding biodiversity, and local opportunity have been harmed by climate change.64 Finally, overlaying all of the impacts of climate destabilization that directly threaten human security, climate change impacts also pose an indirect security implication, as a “threat multiplier,” by driving and exacerbating violent conflict. 65 Conflict from climate change impacts serves to increase the adverse physical, mental, and emotional impacts to children, resulting in further deprivation of their fundamental human rights. Even now, the current generation of children are developing into adults as States fail to address the causes of climate change; they live their lives in a time of increasing climate instability under threat of increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events, increasing ocean acidification, loss of coastline and even entire geographic regions to rising sea levels, rising rates of epidemiological disease, dislocation, and social disruption. 66 Yet States are continuing to support the industries driving climate change, failing to implement science-based policies reducing GHG emissions, and facilitating the loss of natural sequestration services by trees, peat and soil. These actions and inactions by States do not encourage Carbon Majors and other private industry to cease actions that result in the ongoing violations of nearly all the human rights possessed by children. The threats from increasing climate instability will only be intensified for future generations of children, who may never have a chance of realizing their rights. This Commission should continue to investigate the responsibility of the Carbon Majors named in the Petition in order to help remedy the violations or threats of violations to “the rights of Filipinos (a) to life; (b) to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; (c) to food; (d) to water; (e) to sanitation; (f) to adequate housing; (g) to selfdetermination; and (h) of those particularly likely to be affected by climate change, including . . . children”67 This investigation will aid the Philippines in meeting its constitutional and public trust obligations to reduce atmospheric CO2 in line with the 63 François Bourque and Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, Climate Change: The Next Challenge for Public Mental Health, 26 Int’l Rev. of Psychiatry 415, 416 (2014) [hereinafter Climate Change Mental Health]; see also Thomas J. Doherty & Susan Clayton, The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change, 66 Am. Psychologist 265 (2011). 64 Glenn Albrecht et al., Solastalgia: the Distress Caused by Environmental Change, 15S Australasian Psychiatry S95, S96 (2009); Nick Watts et al., Health and Climate Change: Policy Responses to Protect Public Health, 386 Lancet 1861, 1877 (2015) [hereinafter Health and Climate Change]; Georgina Kenyon, Have You Ever Felt Solastalgia, BBC Future (Nov. 2, 2015), http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151030-have-you-ever-felt-solastalgia (last visited July 28, 2016); Glenn Albrecht, Solastalgia: the Distress Caused by Environmental Change, 15 Australasian Psychiatry S95 (2007) [hereinafter Solastalgia]; James R. Miller, Biodiversity Conservation and the Extinction of Experience, 20 Trends in Ecology & Evolution 430, 430-434 (2005) [hereinafter Extinction of Experience]. 65 Patrick Huntjens & Katharina Nachbar, Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier for Human Disaster and Conflict, The Hague Institute for Global Justice, Working Paper No. 9, 1-3 (2015) [hereinafter Threat Multiplier], http://www.thehagueinstituteforglobaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/working-Paper-9-climate-changethreat-multiplier.pdf. 66 Exhibits A, B. 67 See Petition to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines Requesting for Investigation of the Responsibility of the Carbon Majors for Human Rights Violations or Threats of Violations Resulting from the Impacts of Climate Change, 5-6 (Sept. 22, 2016). Our Children’s Trust Amicus Curiae Brief 12