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Petitioners’ consolidated reply to the respondent Carbon Majors in the National Public Inquiry being conducted by Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
Filipinos demanding climate justice filed their response to corporate efforts to shut down the first-ever national inquiry into the responsibility of the fossil fuel industry and others for the human rights impacts resulting from climate change.
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Climate change and water: impacts and vulnerabilities in the Philippines
Climate change is undoubtedly the biggest challenge the Philippines faces today, and the vulnerability of our water resources to this phenomenon is a reality that can no longer be ignored. But while water scarcity is perhaps one of the most alarming projected effects of climate change on water resources, two recent typhoons in the Philippines—Ketsana…
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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