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From Manila to LA: How Greenpeace is turning Make Polluters Pay into law
Whether you live in Manila or in Los Angeles, you’re already feeling the impacts of the climate crisis. Scientific studies confirm Big Oil’s greenhouse gas emissions makes catastrophes significantly more likely to occur.
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Greenpeace activists block Shell import terminal in support of Filipino climate-impacted communities
The fossil fuel companies most responsible for the climate crisis have become rich by exploiting people and the planet. Governments should make them pay for the damage their operations cause.
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The fossil fuel industry’s “genderwashing” exposes another layer of their hypocrisy
Fossil fuel companies have for years tried ‘greenwashing’ – presenting themselves as concerned about the environment, saying fossil gas is a climate-friendly fuel, or investing a tiny percentage of their money in renewables to pretend they are part of the energy transition. Many of them even just change their logos or branding to look more…
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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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Toxic Air: The Price of Fossil Fuels
For the first time, Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) have quantified the global cost of air pollution from fossil fuels, finding that it has reached an estimated US$8 billion per day, or roughly 3.3% of the world’s GDP.
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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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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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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…