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An Open Letter to President Duterte: Declare a Climate Emergency
We call on President Rodrigo Duterte to make a Climate Emergency Declaration in the form of an Executive Order that ensures climate change and its impact on the lives of Filipino people is a top government priority.
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COP25: Greenpeace calls for climate justice as ‘Kammuri’ threatens millions of Filipinos’ rights, security
As Typhoon Kammuri (locally known as Tisoy) wreaks havoc in the Philippines, Greenpeace Philippines urged world leaders to listen to the voices of communities and reaffirm actions to hold big polluters accountable for human rights violations from climate change impacts.
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South Korean-financed coal plants predicted to cause up to 151,000 deaths
At a time of increasingly serious global impacts of climate change from burning coal, South Korea - through its public finance agencies (PFAs) - is financing overseas coal-fired power plants that can emit up to 33 times more air pollution than those built in South Korea.
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Community reps, Greenpeace activists blockade Shell facility in Batangas to call for climate justice
Batangas City, Philippines – Ahead of the coming week’s global mobilizations for the climate, representatives from climate-impacted communities, together with Greenpeace activists, blockaded the entrance to the Batangas refinery of fossil…
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An open-letter to Shell
My community is demanding justice for the thousands of lives killed, their hopes and dreams that will never come to fruition because of greed, apathy and deceit that the fossil fuel industry has supported.
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Landmark CHR investigation into corporate responsibility for climate change to conclude in PH with collection of evidence now on record
Manila, Philippines, 11 December 2018. – A day after International Human Rights Day, the landmark investigation looking into the responsibility of 47 coal, oil, gas and cement companies for human rights violations suffered by the Filipino people, is back home in the Philippines to conclude in a two-day hearing with more testimonies from human rights…
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What does climate change have to do with human rights?
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created in 1948, it was done so to hold firm to the highest of ideals, a set of entitlements that allow all…
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Survivors fight for climate justice in London, five years after Philippines’ deadliest typhoon
London/Manila – Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines – the deadliest storm to hit the country – are 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.[1] The hearings conclude on 8 November, which…
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Exxon, Shell, Chevron face inquiry hearing for human rights violations in New York
New York, 27 September 2018 - An inquiry hearing on 47 multinational corporations including Exxon, Shell, and Chevron for their possible responsibility in violating the human rights of Filipino citizens, by knowingly creating climate risks through their business, will be held at the New York City Bar Association over two days on September 27 and…
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Greenpeace: 11th hour for the climate, it’s time for leadership to truly emerge
Manila / San Francisco - Typhoon Mangkhut, one of the strongest storms of the year, is forecast to hit the north of the Philippines by the weekend before threatening Hong Kong and Macau. In the Atlantic, Hurricane Florence made landfall on the US east coast on Friday and is growing larger. Although its wind speed…