Memorandum for the Petitioners |112 incorporate children’s perspectives. Opportunities for country-shared leamings and for local actions involving children and youth are required. Climate change definitely impacts on children especially because of their sensitivity in the form of child vulnerability as evidenced by impact chains. Partnerships are keys to success. The promotion of the roles and contribution children and youth are necessary but are challenges of to climate change and disaster risk. Greater human security on a long-term basis is important to consider especially since children growing up become also future policy and decision makers. There is a lack of accurate age-specific and spatially referenced local data on vulnerabilities of children and the sensitivity of hazard exposures and vulnerability variables need to be researched and established so that targets and strategies in space and time may be addressed.*2? 8.122.In sum, climate change directly and indirectly threatens the full and effective enjoyment of a range of human rights. Climate change exacerbates underlying inequalities and injustices. The negative impacts of climate change are disproportionately borne by persons and communities already in disadvantageous situations with the least ability to cope, like the petitioners herein and the Filipinos in general, who have historically contributed the least to GHGs.>33 8.123. Thus, expert witness Undersecretary Serrano calls for a positive action, without further delay, to avert this climate crisis. puts it: As he eloquently Your Honors, there are things that happen in the short term for climate change, like extreme events. They’re sexy to the press. They are sexy to the press, they are sexy for politicians. But there are things on climate change that happens way beyond the political life of our political leaders or even our tenures in government. And I refer to slow- onset events. We cannot wait. We have to use the insights from science, particularly climate science and the biological sciences, to be able for us to evaluate ahead and prepare for slow-onset events. We cannot wait to generate our own data here. We cannot wait for those researches to finish so that we have an unequivocal conclusion .... We all know that from the experience of others who have their own string of data. because, We don’t need to reinvent and wait whether we like it or not, we have to do our preparations and our adaptation to climate change now. So we have to make those decisions even if we are not exhaustive in the data... . 582 Vicente, M.C., TSN dated 29-30 August 2018, pp. 48-51, supra note 531. 533 Schachter. B., supra note 394.