Last year, COP27 ended with a historical victory: a landmark agreement on a Loss and Damage Fund that has been advocated by vulnerable countries for decades.
In #EleventhHour this week, Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Kato Sarmiento wrote about the call of the Philippine scientific community for the next administration to prioritize and take urgent action on the climate emergency.
The Climate Reality Project Philippines Youth Cluster joins the Youth Strike 4 Climate Philippines and other organizations in demanding world and national leaders to listen to what the youth have to say on the climate crisis.
The plastic crisis’s connection to the climate emergency and environmental justice impacts are undeniable. The cost of the continued dependence by corporations on single-use plastics and planned expansion of plastic production are too high to be ignored.
To ensure the safety of Filipinos and our environment from such impacts, the undersigned environmental, public health and civil society organizations are calling on consumer goods companies such as Nestle, Coca-Cola and Unilever and the plastic industry to urgently phase out single-use plastics packaging and adopt reuse systems.
