Aksyon Klima Pilipinas

The capsizing of the MT Princess Empress in Tablas Strait near Oriental Mindoro is the latest warning to the Philippines that we must urgently end the era of fossil fuel dominance. Not only was there a reported five-kilometer long oil spill from the ship’s diesel fuel; containers holding 800,000 liters…

Official statement of Aksyon Klima Pilipinas on the outcomes of the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on the status of the Philippine government delegation at the climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 21 November 2022 We, Aksyon Klima Pilipinas,…

We, the representatives of Philippine civil society and social movements at UNFCCC COP27, express our disappointment about the status and conduct of our nation’s government delegation in the ongoing climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Last November 5, the Philippine delegation released a statement through the Department of Environment…

Today marks the ninth year since supertyphoon Haiyan (Yolanda) struck the Philippines. It killed at least 6300 people, many of whom remain unlocated to this day and costed the nation nearly PHP90 billion worth of damage to properties. It was the storm that finally placed the climate crisis as a…

At COP26, the Conference of the Parties in Decision 1/CP.26, also known as the Glasgow Climate Pact, affirmed and acknowledged “that climate change is a common concern of humankind, [and that] Parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights,…