Rooted in the conviction that culture, along with creative inquiry and storytelling, is vital to tackling the climate crisis, The Agam Agenda and Climate Reality Philippines launched #RewriteCOP in the lead-up to COP28.
A growing proportion of climate-vulnerable countries are already in or at risk of being in a financial crisis. In Eleventh Hour this week, we wrote about the need for multilateral development banks to provide the Global South with opportunities to course-correct its debt problems while delivering its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement.
In our column Eleventh Hour this week at the Manila Bulletin, Climate Reality Leader Kristine Galang delved into how “loss and damage” caused by the climate crisis is diminishing the already scarce resources in the country intended to support critical economic, social, and development programs.
For the first edition of #RealiTalk this 2023, we talked to Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Alex Rosas on recent developments in international climate finance and loss and damage negotiations and actions.
Although it only accounts for about 0.3% of global emissions, the Philippines is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and disasters due to its geographic location.
In line with this, we talked to our counterparts in The Climate Reality Project in the US to lay out what’s at stake for the country in the ongoing #COP26 in Glasgow.
The Climate Reality Project Philippines launched today its energy literacy campaign called Murang Kuryente, Masiglang Pamayanan in line with its efforts to sustain the momentum gained by renewable energy development in the country in the past year.
The launch coincides with the global day of action led by former US Vice President Al Gore, founder and chairperson of The Climate Reality Project, entitled “24 Hours of Reality: Let’s Get Real.” The goal of this global movement is to rally people around the world to demand the real policy change required to cut fossil fuel emissions and transition to a just clean-energy economy.
