Nadia Cruz
Our 2024 was filled with hope to keep going as we have witnessed how communities amplify the need for climate solutions. Rather than celebrating resilience alone, 2024 has been about fostering the capacity to adapt, learn, and empower the communities we are part of, paving the way for a more equitable and sustainable future.
While the climate crisis remains an urgent challenge, we are also celebrating the increasing momentum from organizations, academic institutions, businesses, and even local governments who are shifting their focus towards actionable climate solutions.
These efforts, while not yet fully addressing the depth of the crisis, compels us to confront the systemic exploitation and inequities by prioritizing the needs of the most affected communities, empowering these communities to take the lead, reshape the structural conditions of the crisis, and create solutions that directly benefit their local contexts. This collaborative and inclusive approach is essential to ensuring a climate action that is just, impactful, and sustainable over the long term.
From cleaner energy in our grids, to sustainable transport, to cleaner air, to youth and community-led actions, all for paving a sustainable future for us all.
We celebrate the incredible events and milestones of this year:
Campaigned for Clean Air and promoted sustainable transport
350 Pilipinas and bike volunteers held a program in front of the Breathing Billboard at the Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon City on August 08, 2024. The volunteers participated in a visual study to depict the air pollution impacts to the health and call for a sustainable and mode of transportation. Photo: Leo M. Sabangan II.
Documentation of opportunities and challenges of Electric Vehicle adoption in the Philippines
Promoting for fossil-fuel displacement by amplifying the benefits of the Green Energy Option Program
Collaborative efforts from the different stakeholders of institutions. from administration to students for green and sustainable campus
Empowering youth to lead local climate actions
Citizen led bike count through Mobility Awards’ Bilang Siklista
Supported campaigns for Climate Finance, challenging finance institutions to shift their investments towards Renewable Energy
June 6, 2024.A hundred activists gathered in front of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters here urging the bank to “flip the switch to renewables”, towards a fast and equitable clean energy transition that prioritizes people and the environment. The creative action was staged by civil society groups and affected communities to challenge the ADB to not only fast-track the shift to renewable energy but also ensure transparent and equitable investments, prioritize community consultation, provide grants over loans in financing energy transition projects, and reject harmful energy solutions as the bank is holding its annual Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) this week.Activists from 350 Pilipinas, NGO Forum on ADB, GAIA Asia Pacific, Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, and Freedom from Debt Coalition carried a globe effigy that showed dirty energy projects and climate impacts on one side and renewable energy and its benefits on the other. A switch in the middle made the globe spin, highlighting the role of ADB in the global switch to renewable energy. PHOTO / LEO M. SABANGAN II
Bridged history, climate, transport, and art through revisiting historical landmarks in Sintang Lakbay.
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- Sintang Lakbay participants went ti the Manila City Jail as part of the second Sintang Lakbay on JUNE 15, 2024. PHOTO / LEO M. SABANGAN II
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- PUP marks 120th founding year with climate, mobility, history ride MANILA, PHILIPPINES, 22 April 2024 – The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) launched Sintang Lakbay today, a pioneering initiative integrating inclusive mobility, culture, and history. The move highlights the school’s resolve to demonstrate the relevance of its academic philosophy in the face of current climate-constrained realities. To mark its 120th anniversary, PUP partnered with the Constantino Foundation and 350 Pilipinas, whose respective pursuits – integrative pedagogy for the former and for the latter, effective climate campaigning – are helping re-define the university’s strategic role in nation-building. Photo / Leo M. Sabangan II
Let’s keep building a brighter tomorrow, together!
About the Author:
Nadia Cruz (They/Them) is an advocate for climate, gender and labor. Currently they work as the communications and media officer for 350 Pilipinas.