Cyclone Idai underlines the need for a just transition to renewable energy
As climate change or climate breakdown increases, storms like Idai will become more intense. The longer it takes us to address development and reach development goals, the greater the impact of these events will be.…
“Scientists say we must stop global warming now. Here are some stories of people fighting for it”
The People’s Dossier on 1.5°C contains the stories of communities fighting against fossil fuel projects and for a fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy. It outlines how climate change is currently impacting them and grounds their fight in …
Deadly rains in Japan point to growing impacts of climate change
Record rainfall across western Japan caused flooding of rivers and landslides. To date, 176 lives are known to have been lost in 13 prefectures. Dozens of people remain unaccounted for and hundreds of thousands of displaced residents are living in …
Matching urgency and ambition through local climate finance
By Chuck Baclagon
The science is clear. Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.
It is a global phenomenon that at its very heart impacts the lives and livelihoods of local communities, especially in countries like the Philippines …
Rising above the wreckage
By Chuck Baclagon
Struggle is the tension between hope and desperation. It best describes the plight of the many who have gotten a glimpse of climate change’s destructive onslaught already felt by countries like the Philippines.
Three years after Haiyan, …
The brewing storm of inaction
“Rice and corn plants as far as the eye can see are flattened. Many houses were destroyed. I saw one school building crushed under a large tree. It was as if our house was being pulled from its foundations.”
These …
Beyond Survival: Super Typhoon Haima and the Paris Agreement
By: Chuck Baclagon
The Philippines always ranks in the top 5 most vulnerable countries in the world in various indices. One of the reasons for that that is on average, about 20 tropical cyclones enter Philippine waters annually, with eight …
The Struggle Deep in the Forests of the Philippines
Last week, 350 Pilipinas coordinator, Zeph Repollo, was part of an international solidarity mission to a remote village of the Dulangan People in Mindanao, Philippines.
Photo credit: 350 Pilipinas
I’m writing this note from the lush, forest-clad …
Climate Change & King Tides in Kiribati
At the end of February the scenes in the South Pacific atoll island nation of Kiribati were dramatic and frightening. Waves crashed across the lagoon side of South Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, swamping everything in their path. For the …
This is what climate change looks like from the underside
This is what the struggle for climate justice looks like on the frontlines at this moment. In the last 48 hours ~half a million people~ have had to evacuate their homes in coastal areas of the Philippines as they prepare …