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We call on motorists to share the road, as well as to promote the use of bicycles as an alternative form of transportation to minimize our dependency on fossil-fueled vehicles.

Marcos’s destructive track record of plunder and repression outshines the glitter of the martial law’s golden age. It is hard to reconcile how one leader who pursued this dirty and bloody path to supposed development could ever be declared a hero.

Coal industry branded “enemy of the climate, enemy of Filipino people”

Three years after Haiyan, the strongest storm in recorded history, made landfall and devastated central Philippines, there is still much work to be done to build back better and demand climate justice. Several organizations in the midst of the climate struggle in the Philippines pointed this out through different activities over the past few days.

Recognizing that the most vulnerable nations on Earth to the climate crisis also are the least culpable in causing it, the principle of common but differentiated responsibility calls on all countries to take responsibility in mitigating climate change while also calling on the high-emitting rich industrialized countries of the Global North to provide their fair share, compensating Global South nations like the Philippines with climate financing as a part of their “climate debt.”

We’re not giving up the fight and neither should the international community.

With the Philippines being rated as among the most climate vulnerable countries worldwide, our status as a country that would ratify the agreement advances the voice of those who should be heard the loudest.

We have the most to lose and very little to gain if we pursue the myopic track of seeing emissions reduction as an obstruction to development.

While rightfully asserting that industrialized nations make decisive steps towards a low-carbon future, the Philippines must continue to show its leadership internationally by seeking aggressive measures to shift towards a just transition to renewable energy systems and free up financing to protect the most vulnerable from worsening climate impacts.

By: Zaira Patricia Baniaga Few days before September ends, we were stunned by the news about a farmer who was shot…