Ahead of International Human Rights Day, climate activists, typhoon survivors, farmers, and fisherfolk trooped to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to demand the issuance of the long-delayed report on the world’s first National Inquiry on Climate Change (NICC), which sought to investigate the responsibility of investor-owned fossil fuel companies for human rights harms arising from the climate crisis.

The petitioners said the delay in the issuance of the final report is a disservice to Filipino communities and climate survivors who continue to suffer from the impacts of the climate crisis while the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies continue business as usual with impunity.

The filing of the Motion marks the second year since Commissioner Roberto Cadiz, the focal commissioner for the NICC, announced the preliminary findings at the sidelines of COP25 in Madrid in 2019. Climate survivors and activists have since been awaiting the issuance of the final report to the landmark case.