Asian Movements to IFC: Take Bolder Moves Away from Coal and Fossil Fuel Involvement!
Peoples organizations, NGOs and other civil society groups from all over the world are gathered in Bali, Indonesia to raise their issues and calls on the occasion of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meeting this week. One of the …
Why we need more women for our climate
I am new to the climate movement but not powerless. I may be a novice from technical and complex discussions about climate change, but that never stopped me from using my talent for climate justice.……
Uprising Against Japan’s Coal Addiction
By Marie Tanao
“Clean coal” is a myth. Japan is behind the rest of the world in recognizing this truth.
In 1992, the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade (METI) then known as the Ministry of International Trade and Industry …
Japanese groups protest the United States’ exit from the Paris Agreemtn
A concerned group of citizens gathered in the front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to take part in an emergency action hosted by Greenpeace Japan and 350.org Japan to protest the U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement.
In a …
On Paris, it’s Trump and the fossil fuel industry versus everyone else on earth
In the past few years, reactionary politicians across the world have been seizing power with the backing of fossil fuel interests. One of those politicians, Donald Trump, is contemplating attacking international climate action by taking the United States out of …
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, …
Duterte relents on Paris pact position
By Chuck Baclagon
President Duterte’s agreement to ratify the Paris climate agreement is welcome news for the Philippines. It opens the potential not just for renewables and the bigger energy sector but also for the overall economy.
With the Philippines …
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.
I’m writing this note from the lush, forest-clad …