{"id":58167,"date":"2023-02-09T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T11:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=58167"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:21:11","slug":"ive-lost-loved-ones-to-climate-change-i-want-big-oil-companies-to-pay-yeb-sano-reflects-on-shell-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/58167\/ive-lost-loved-ones-to-climate-change-i-want-big-oil-companies-to-pay-yeb-sano-reflects-on-shell-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve lost loved ones to climate change and I want big oil companies to pay – Yeb Sa\u00f1o reflects on Shell protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Greenpeace activist Yeb Sano preparing before action to board and occupy Shell platform en route to major oilfield with message: \u2018STOP DRILLING. START PAYING.\u2019
\u00a9 Chris J Ratcliffe \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

In 2013, as I spoke at COP19\u2019s global climate talks in my role of climate negotiator for the Philippines, I had no idea if my brother was alive. Super Typhoon Haiyan had ripped through my country just three days before and my home town, Tacloban City, was ground zero. Many loved ones, including my brother, went missing. <\/p>\n\n

It wasn\u2019t until after my speech that I learned he had survived. <\/p>\n\n

But none of us were unscathed. My brother\u2019s best friend and his entire family perished. After emerging from the wreckage of his life, my brother had to carry bodies to mass graves. He remembers the exact number of people he carried: 78. <\/p>\n\n

More than 6,000 people died in that one typhoon and nowadays, we face them every single year. When you visit graves in the Philippines, many headstones have 10 or more names on them. <\/p>\n\n

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