R e ch t sa nw ä lt e Gü nt h e r P artnerschaft -3- responsibility of the courts. Today’s testimony is therefore novel to me. II. In substance I will 1. Present to the Commission the three cases referred to above with the help of a power point presentation which will be submitted at a later date. I will present the facts of the cases as well as the legal background and elaborate on any issues with relevance to human rights. As documentation I attach the following documents. - Luciano Lluiya ./. RWE o Application to court – Appendix 2 o Order of the court of first instance – Appendix 3 o Preliminary order of the appellate Court – Appendix 4 o A current newspaper article on the case from the TIME Magazine – Appendix 5 - People’s Climate Case (Armando Carvalho and others ./. European Parliament and Council (EU General Court, T 330/18) o Summary of Pleas – Appendix 6 o Frequently asked Questions on the PCC – Appendix 7 Since the third case has not been submitted to court yet, I cannot make available to the Commission any documentation yet but will make this available at a later stage. 2. Elaborate on the status of application of human or basic rights to climate change on the basis of the cases above as well as on the basis of the two judgements delivered in the Netherlands in the known climate case taken by the environmental foundation Urgenda. To support this I submit the pertinent judgements in English translation: o District court of The Hague – Appendix 8 o Appellate Court of The Hague – Appendix 9 III. I note that for the Philippines, the most pertinent risks and impacts from climate change include storms (and typhoons in particular),