5 November 2025, Quezon City — As Cebu, Negros, and parts of Visayas and Mindanao face severe flooding and damage from Typhoon Tino (international name: Kalmaegi), Greenpeace Philippines urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to fast-track the passage of the proposed Climate Accountability (CLIMA) Bill, a landmark legislation that seeks to hold climate polluters accountable for the worsening climate impacts.
The typhoon left widespread flooding across the country, displacing thousands of families and resulting in 92 deaths in Cebu alone, mainly due to drowning.1
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has also warned that a developing cyclone outside the Philippine area of responsibility may intensify into a super typhoon and hit northern Luzon this weekend, threatening further devastation just days after Typhoon Tino.
Scientists have already attributed the increasing strength and frequency of such storms to human-induced climate change,2 largely driven by the fossil fuel industry. The damage comes amid growing public outrage over alleged corruption3 in flood control projects, raising questions about whether communities were left at greater risk.
“Every storm like Tino is a painful reminder that justice is long overdue. Filipinos are already doing everything to survive these disasters, but resilience alone cannot withstand greed and negligence,” said Jefferson Chua, Greenpeace Philippines climate campaigner. “Fossil fuel companies have known for decades that their pollution drives climate disasters, and corruption in government leaves our communities exposed. Yet it is ordinary Filipinos who are forced to rebuild, again and again.”
He reiterated longstanding calls by Filipino climate survivors, Greenpeace Philippines, and other organizations for the President to ensure the passage of the CLIMA Bill.4 The measure aims to reform the business practices of major climate-polluting companies and require them to compensate communities for losses and damages linked to climate change.
“The CLIMA Bill gives Filipinos a fighting chance by finally making big climate polluters pay for the destruction they profit from,” Chua said. “If our government refuses to hold climate polluters accountable, then whose side is it really on?”
The back-to-back threats come as the Philippines prepares to mark the 12th anniversary of Super Typhoon Yolanda, which claimed thousands of lives, and ahead of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the 30th Conference of Parties (COP30), in Belém, Brazil.
“If the President is serious about protecting Filipinos, he must demand that developed countries fully fund the Loss and Damage mechanism at COP30 and prove that commitment here at home by swiftly passing the CLIMA Bill,” Chua said. “Anything less is abandoning Filipinos to the next typhoon.”
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Link to PHOTOS HERE (https://act.gp/tino-nov5)
Notes to editors:
[1] ‘Tino’ leaves a trail of destruction in Cebu
[3] Flood control corruption an obscene plunder of much-needed climate funds–Greenpeace
[4] Landmark climate accountability law to make corporate polluters pay pushed in Congress
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