Iprinisinta ng Greenpeace Philippines ang Climate Action Agenda na nais nila upang masiguro ang survival at wellbeing ng mg Filipino ngayon at sa mga susunod pang dekada.
Naipasa na ang Climate Accountability (CLIMA) Law, at host pa ang Pilipinas sa United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) Board. Symbolic ang nasabing hosting, na nagsilbi ring hagdan sa ambisyong makilala bilang lider sa climate justice sa international stage.
Ayon kay Greenpeace Campaigner Jefferson Chua, kailangang magbayad ang mga fossil fuel companies na siyang climate polluters, para sa loss and damage. Nanawagan din silang magkaroon ng total phase out sa bansa ng fossil fuels, upang magkaroon ng greener and more equitable systems.
Ayon naman Kay Buklod Tao, Inc. Founder and President Manuel “Ka Noli” Abinales, sila ang nakaranas ng climate impacts, mula noong 70s Hanggang sa kasalukuyang dekada. Aniya, ang mga komunidad n maninirahan sa tabing ilog ng Nangka at Marikina Rivers ang higit na tinamaan ng climate change.
Lumalapad umano ang mga ilog at kinakain ang lupa dahil sa mga itinatanong dike. Nagkakaroon umano ng cycle of repair and wall collapse kaya lumalaki ang gastos ng gobyerno.
“While vulnerable communities like us continue to suffer from climate impacts, oil and gas companies only get richer from their profits. We hope that our government recognizes this injustice, as they continue to spend the nation’s resources while climate polluters do not even contribute to the repairs,” aniya.
Iprinisinta naman ni WR Numero Senior Researcher Cid Manalo ang isinagawang survey sa kung ano ang pananaw ng mga Filipino sa mga most pressing environmental issues. Aniya, “Filipinos are generally anxious about the negative consequences of climate change to their family and immediate communities. The Philippine situation is a concretization of the double-burden experienced by people from the developing world whose anxieties are furthered and made more complex by the intersection with worries brought by the lack of support to basic social services.
“The collective inaction towards the climate crisis, through unmet global commitments and targets is not helping ease these worries. Immediate, lasting, local climate solutions that continuously integrate the needs and critically involve our communities provides one of the paths towards easing both anxieties.”
“Beyond words and symbolic gestures, climate justice must be the top priority of the government,” Greenpeace Campaigner Virginia Benosa-Llorin said, “Mr. Marcos must adopt a Climate Justice Agenda that can serve as a framework for environment and climate protection that is grounded on human rights and corporate accountability.
The most important thing he can do right now is to speed up the passage and ensure the effective enactment of the Climate Accountability (CLIMA) Bill (HB9069) and begin the process of litigating carbon majors for climate impact damages to the Filipino people.”