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Air pollution from fossil fuels costs the world US$8 billion every day: Greenpeace
Air pollution from burning fossil fuels - primarily coal, oil, and gas - is attributed to an estimated 4.5 million deaths each year worldwide and estimated economic losses of US$2.9 trillion, or approximately 3.3% of global GDP, new research from Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) shows.
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First-ever finding on corporate responsibility for climate crisis issued by CHR; Groups hail landmark climate justice victory for communities
In its groundbreaking investigation, the CHR announced that the 47 investor-owned corporations, including Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Repsol, Sasol, and Total, could be found legally and morally liable for human rights harms to Filipinos resulting from climate change.
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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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IN PHOTOS: Filipinos in the path of Typhoon Kammuri (Tisoy)
Filipinos in the path of Typhoon Kammuri (Tisoy)
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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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Joint NGO statement on failure of RSPO to meet the demands of global climate crisis
Last year, RSPO members approved a new set of Principles and Criteria that align with the global “No Deforestation, No Peat, and No Exploitation” policies of many of its members. Yet the RSPO’s new standard will only be meaningful if it is audited and upheld in a thorough, comprehensive and competent way.
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Greenpeace unfurls two urgent messages for Jokowi’s second term
Two giant banners were dropped from Jakarta’s most iconic statues this morning: the Aerospace Statue at Pancoran in South Jakarta, and the Welcome Statue which stands at the heart of the city at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout. The urgent messages, addressed to President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) call on him to drop dirty coal energy and…
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Thailand Solar Fund installs solar rooftop panels in hospitals in Thailand’s Northeastern Region
Thais from far and wide got together to install solar rooftop panels at the Thung Si Udom Hospital in Ubonratchathani, Phu Sing Hospital in Si Sa Ket, and Chum Phae Hospital in Khon Kaen on 18,19 and 22 October 2019. People were asked to donate to the crowdfunded Thailand Solar Fund and to sign a…
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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…