Memorandum for the Petitioners | 107 fed agriculture are especially threatened by climate change and environmental degradation.”4” 8.102. Climate-related hazards also have indirect effects on livelihoods by exacerbating other stressors. As noted by UNEP, climate change may contribute to “(i) increases in the prices of food, energy, and other critical commodities; (ii) political instability and largescale conflict; and (iii) individual and household-level disturbances.”>™ 8.103.In a country like the Philippines, where weather is becoming hotter and air-conditioning in some types of public transportation are non- existent, extreme weather events pose risks on the ability of workers to earn a living. Filipinos find it more difficult, if not impossible, to work safely in extreme temperatures. Such is the challenge that community: witness Mr. Emesto Cruz," a jeepney driver in an urban area of Metro Manila, faces today. 8.104. As for the right to social security, which represents the right of everyone to live a life in human dignity in situations of social distress, climate change impacts exacerbate a wide range of pre-existing social issues.>° 10. The right to discrimination equality and non- 8.105.The right to equality and non-discrimination is also a tenet of international human rights law protected in the UDHR, ICCPR, and ICESCR, all of which recognize that the rights enumerated therein must be exercised and protected without discrimination of any kind.>™ 8.106.Recognizing that certain groups are more likely to endure violations of their human rights (e.g., women, children, and indigenous peoples), the UN has established more detailed frameworks for the protection of these groups — specifically: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Woman (CEDAW), the Convention on the “ Lofts, K., supra note 375, p. 9, citing Javier Bornstein Ortega & Christine Klauth, Climate Landscape Analysis for Children in the Philippines (Makati City: UNICEF Philippines, 2017), p. 20. 5% Ibid., citing UNEP, Climate Change and Human Rights (Nairobi: UNEP, 2015) p. 8. °°) Exhibit “HH” to “HH-2,” supra note 14; also see Testimony of Mr. Emesto Cruz, TSN dated 27-28 March 2018, pp. 157-166, also available at http://chr.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NICC-TSNMarch-27-to-28-20 18-Metro-Manila-Philippines.pdf (last accessed on 12 September 2019). 5° Lofts, K., supra note 375, p. 10. 5°3 UN GAOR, 3d Sess, Supp No 13, UN Doc A/810 (1948) at Arts 1 and 2 (hereinafter, “UDHR”); International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 16 December 1966, 999 UNTS 2(1) (hereinafter, “ICCPR”). 171 at Art