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YOLANDA 5 YEARS ON: SURVIVORS IN LONDON TO FIGHT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
Filipino survivors of extreme weather events are currently in London to give personal testimonies at a landmark inquiry to determine whether the world’s largest carbon producers are violating the human rights of communities worst affected by climate change.
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Greenpeace ranks Philippine tuna canneries based on sustainable and equitable fisheries guidelines
Quezon City – After months of research and monitoring, Greenpeace Philippines today released a tuna ranking of nine local canneries based on international sustainable and equitable fisheries guidelines. It found that almost all the local canneries surveyed scored poorly indicating just how the industry is not doing enough to address the problem of rampant illegal,…
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Garbage “engulfing” Manila, Philippines after severe storm highlights plastic and climate crises
Waves of plastic pollution has engulfed parts of Metro Manila and nearby provinces, after a combination of heavy storm and monsoon rains, with garbage clogging drainage and causing floods.
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Groups remind Duterte: Address food crisis before first 100 days of presidency ends
Environmental advocates and civil society groups gathered today to remind President Rodrigo Duterte to fulfill the promises he made to farmers and fisherfolk during the elections season and expressed urgency over the lack of an integrated framework to address poverty and hunger in the country, even as the President’s first one hundred days in office…
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Nestlé misses the mark with statement on tackling its single-use plastics problem
Greenpeace's response to Nestlé's statement aimed at addressing the growing plastic pollution crisis.
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Green groups to Nestlé: “Own up, pay up, clean up your act!”
Activists belonging to the global #breakfreefromplastic movement trooped to Nestlé’s Philippine headquarters to demand accountability for their role in abetting the country’s plastic pollution crisis.
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For the first time fossil fuel companies face national human rights complaint on climate change
Manila - Typhoon survivors and civil society groups in the Philippines today delivered a complaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) calling for an investigation into the responsibility of big fossil fuel companies for fuelling catastrophic climate change that is resulting in human rights violations. [1]
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Greenpeace statement on the murder of Gloria Capitan, anti-coal activist in Bataan
Read Greenpeace's statement on the murder of Gloria Capitan, anti-coal activist in Bataan
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Greenpeace condemns bloody dispersal of farmers in Cotabato and demands government action on El Niño
Greenpeace denounced the bloody response made by police on Friday, April 1, to protests by farmers and lumad (Indigenous Peoples) from the different towns of Cotabato who were demanding relief and subsidy for farm communities affected by the drought brought about by El Niño.
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‘People and planet, not profit’
Greenpeace activists demand Shell show up at climate change and human rights inquiry
