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Greenpeace statement on the “sea of garbage” after monsoon rains
A “sea of garbage” from Manila Bay near Baclaran Church[1] went viral after several days of monsoon rains that inundated several parts of Metro Manila and nearby provinces.
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Massacre of trees under a climate crisis is not development —Greenpeace and NAPC-VDC
The cutting down of 617 decades-old trees along Quirino Avenue and Roxas Blvd. in pursuit of profits by the country’s richest of the rich is deeply alarming and unacceptable.
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Who gets to call destruction development?
The cutting of mature trees in Manila to give way to the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEx) forces us to ask a basic but often avoided question: development for whom?
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Greenpeace calls for PH government’s urgency and political will to act after 4th landfill disaster
Another landfill disaster has struck the Philippines, this time in Davao City, claiming one life, while two elderly individuals remain missing.
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Communities suing Shell unite, take the fight to their doorstep in creative action
On the morning of Shell’s Annual General Meeting, environmental groups across the UK, the Philippines, and Nigeria joined forces to show international solidarity and support for legal action against the company.
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Greenpeace: ASEAN leaders cannot claim climate leadership while silencing peaceful protest
While ASEAN leaders spoke of sustainability and regional resilience at opening day of the summit in Cebu, peaceful Greenpeace activists calling for solutions to the climate and plastic crises to contribute to those same goals outside the venue were taken into police custody.
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Guimaras oil spill exposes ongoing fossil fuel harms
Matuto na sana tayo sa huling major oil spill sa probinsya noong 2006.2 The victims of tanker M/T Solar 1—chartered by Petron—are still fighting to this day for full compensation due to damages to fishing and livelihood 20 years ago.
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Envi, labor groups seek release of probe findings on deadly Binaliw trash slide
Members of the Justice for Prime Waste 39 Network filed a Freedom of Information request seeking full disclosure of documents related to the Binaliw trash slide. Despite earlier commitments from DENR Region 7 to conduct regular public briefings, no official findings from the probe have been released to date.
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The bill is due: Filipino communities demand Unilever pay for decades of plastic pollution
Multisectoral groups from the Philippines have filed a landmark pollution complaint before the Pollution Adjudication Board of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-PAB) against Unilever PLC and Unilever Philippines, Inc.
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Navotas landfill fire latest in dangerous trend of waste disasters
Following the fire at the closed Navotas Sanitary Landfill in Barangay Tanza, Navotas, environmental group Greenpeace Philippines warned that the incident is part of a growing and dangerous pattern of waste catastrophes in the Philippines, underscoring the urgent need to address the country’s waste crisis at source, through reduction.