PRESS RELEASE 6 November 2021 Filipinos join #cop26 protests to fight for survival in a drowning world. From University of the Philippines to Glasgow, Scotland Filipino climate activists took to the streets today to join global protests around the 26th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The ongoing climate negotiations, they say, are dangerously following previous patterns of COPs where pledges are ambitious but actions fall short. "We march today to remind COP26 leaders that this is a matter of our people's survival in this drowning world. We need real carbon emission cuts and just compensation from the top polluter nations and corporations, not in 10 or 30 years when many Filipinos will have already been submerged by floods, receding coasts, and rising seas, but right now," said Leon Dulce, national coordinator of Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment, one of the lead organizers of the Philippine leg of the global day of action for climate justice. The Philippines incurs billions of dollars of damages annually from typhoons and floods linked to climate change, and we experience it alongside the worst pandemic response situation in the world. "There is so much to protest about what has been touted as the most exclusionary COP ever because of vaccine inequity and inaccessible travel and conferential logistics. While there are rosy pledges here of zero deforestation by 2030 and a $130-trillion climate finance pledge by banks and investors, these are deceitful 'net zero' pledges that delay action up to the last year of the narrow window for action," Lia Torres of CEC said. "Too little, too late is truly a recipe for a drowning world," she said. "We are serious when we say we want to #UprootTheSystem for a sustainable future. I think it is high time for our prospective leaders to pass a People’s Green New Deal that will facilitate a just and green recovery, with the presidential elections just around the corner,” said Xian Guevarra, outgoing national coordinator of the Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (#YACAP), in a statement. #panatangluntian #climatestrike #climatejustice (at Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV9y12dhBk9/?utm_medium=tumblr
