Aksyon Klima Pilipinas

Nearly thirteen years to this day, tropical storm Ondoy struck the Philippines. The devastation it left behind stunned an entire nation, a preview of the dangers looming and brought about by the climate crisis. Today, the Philippines braces itself once again for the impacts of Noru (“Karding”), a super-typhoon whose…

5 April 2022 On 4 April, Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the last part of its Sixth Assessment Report, highlighting the urgency of mitigation in addressing the climate crisis, the gravest existential threat to current and future generations.  The findings of this landmark…

On 28 February, Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report, highlighting the latest on the impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability associated with the climate crisis.  This comes three months after the conclusion of the most recent climate negotiations…

A few days before Christmas, the Philippines was once again reminded that there is no such thing as a break from the climate crisis. Within 24 hours, tropical cyclone “Odette” intensified from a weak storm into a super-typhoon right before making its first landfall in Mindanao on 16 December. It…