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Authorities prevented fisherfolk from holding a symbolic action outside the court, underscoring what CEED’s Gerry Arances later described as the difficulty marginalized sectors face in making their voices heard.
“We know that COP will not solve the climate crisis especially when the governments are offering false solutions to the negotiating table."
Capitalist countries continue to dodge their responsibility for the climate crisis, refusing to pay up while pushing market schemes that allow them to keep polluting.
“What drowned Cebu was not just rain, it was the flood of corruption, of negligence, of a government that has long abandoned its duty to the people.”
Health systems are challenged to deliver universal health coverage even at current levels of warming, with the majority of countries (108/194) experiencing worsening or no significant improvement in service coverage since the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015.
“What we have been calling for, as part of the Palestinian movement for more than 20 years, is to hold Israel — and all those who support it — accountable for the crimes being committed."
"Billions of pesos meant to protect communities from flooding have been plundered through ghost projects, overpricing, and kickbacks."
It will promise bold action and demand reparations and climate finance from the Global North while boasting about its role as board chair on loss and damage. Beneath this spectacle, the government glaringly tramples climate justice at home
"Mutual aid and government accountability go hand in hand — one builds community, the other justice," stated in a post by Community Pantry Philippines founder Patreng Non.
"While our houses are submerged in flood water, they are literally swimming in money."
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Despite the harm to the residents’ health and livelihood, they did not get any compensation.
Pamalakaya calls for immediate economic aid and long-term compensation and for URC to shoulder the cleanup costs.
“These impacts are not entirely caused by natural disasters but by decades of environmental degradation."
International delegates have denounced the intertwined crises of corruption, militarization, and climate injustice in rural and indigenous communities across the Philippines.
Years of state inaction and corruption have compounded the damages and losses induced by natural calamities.
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas urged the adoption of a long-term rehabilitation plan and climate-resilient farming measures, stressing that small farmers remain the most affected yet the least supported each year.
The Philippines is still the most dangerous in Asia, with eight reported killings and disappearances, not counting additional suspected attacks that go unreported.
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