Memorandum for the Petitioners | 97 an additional 700,000 deaths per year by 2030. The Climate Vulnerable Forum study found that climate change is currently responsible for 400,000 deaths per year.*78 8.73. In financial terms, the 2017 Philippine Climate Change Assessment notes that in the area of human health alone, “[t]he potential impacts of climate change are projected to be USD 5 to 19 million by 2050 in terms of loss of public safety, increased vector- and water-borne diseases, and increased malnutrition from food shortages during extreme events.” 5. The right to self-determination and development 8.74, The ICESCR and ICCPR affirm that “[a]ll peoples have the right of self-determination,” stating that “[b]y virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.”*° 8.75. The UN General Assembly affirmed this principle when it adopted the 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development. The right to development is the right of every human person and all peoples to participate in, contribute development, in fully realized.*' recognized that exercise of their to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be The 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development also the right of peoples to self-determination includes “the inalienable right to full sovereignty over all their natural wealth and resources.” 8.76. As shown by some of the testimonies of the community witnesses, slow onset and extreme weather events are extremely disruptive to the lives and the natural wealth and resources of Filipinos. “8 Lofts, K., supra note 375, p. 11, citing DARA and the Climate Vulnerable Forum, Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition: A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet (Madrid: Fundacion DARA Internacional, 2012), p. 17. “° Ibid., citing Cruz, R., ef al. (2017), supra note 357, p. 9. “°° Lofts, K., supra note 375, p. 6; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (16 December 1966), Art. 1(1) 993 U.N.T.S. 3.; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, (16 December 1966), Art. 1(1), 9, 999 U.N.T.S. 171. “3! International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), 16 December 1966, 993 UNTS 3 at Article 1(1); Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), GA Res 217011, UN GAOR, 3d Sess, Supp No 13, UN Doc A/810 (1948) at Arts [UDHR]; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 16 December 1966, 999 UNTS 17] at Art 2(1) [ICCPR]. UNGA Res 41/128, Declaration on the Right to Development, UN Doc A/RES/41/128 (4 December 1986) at Art 1(1} [Declaration on the Right to Development]. “2 UNGA Res 41/128, Declaration on the Right to Development, UN Doc A/RES/41/128 (4 December 1986) at Art 1(2) (hereinafter, “Declaration on the Right to Development”).