Memorandum for the Petitioners | 157 9.11. To be meaningful though, the first step to the long-term monitoring of the human rights impacts of climate change is establishing a baseline, ie. defining and understanding the target of the monitoring. Specifically, the Honorable Commission must look into the following three elements: (1) the communities it seeks to monitor; (2) the hazards the communities face; and (3) the instruments protecting the communities’ rights and properties. 9.12. To identify the communities acutely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, the Honorable Commission must take its cue from the testimonies of the experts regarding this and look into the population’s demographics, economic activity, health, education, the existing infrastructure in the area, and the area’s history of extreme weather events and past efforts to rebuild after a disaster. 9.13. Hazards in this context are dangers and threats faced by the community, including those exacerbated by climate change, such as changes in temperature, relative humidity, solar, radiation, wind, and precipitation, and climate-induced disasters, such as floods and droughts. A hazard analysis must include the existing policies, strategies, plans, and actions by the local and/or national government designed to prevent further damage from recurrent extreme weather events. 9.14. Instruments protecting the communities’ rights and properties include national laws, legislation, regulations, and international conventions. The Honorable Commission must analyze the effectiveness of these instruments in safeguarding the community and, later on, determine whether these instruments must be adopted or if new ones need to be created. 9.15. In its monitoring, the Honorable Commission should look into convening a multidisciplinary team of specialists with competence in health, psychosocial services, disaster risk reduction and management, housing, transportation, livelihood and welfare, energy, environment (terrestrial, aquatic, or marine), and climate change impact monitoring. The skills of each individual in the team must be tailored to the community whose vulnerability they are monitoring. Transparent and participatory nature of monitoring must also include representatives from communities, and monitoring results must be disclosed to communities and all stakeholders. 9.16. The Honorable Commission should also consider convening a group of public and private stakeholders, including representatives from communities, that can take action once the multidisciplinary team of To be more effective, the specialists delivers its monitoring reporting. stakeholder groups should create organizational and operational structures