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In 2019, Tan co-founded Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP), [8] the Fridays For Future (FFF) organization of the Philippines, [2] following climate demonstrations around the world. [7] Tan is the lead convener [9] [10] and international spokesperson [2] [11] [12] of YACAP.
The Philippine Senate Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change is a standing committee of the Senate of the Philippines.. This committee was formed after the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and the Committee on Climate Change were merged on September 3, 2019, pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 9 of the 18th Congress.
The Philippines was the Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum during the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris and oversaw the adoption of the body's Manila-Paris Declaration [5] at the Third High-Level Meeting of the Forum in November 2015. The Manila-Paris Declaration articulated the common concerns and commitments of ...
The Philippines faced six back to back typhoons in just 23 days last month, an unprecedented onslaught of storms that scientists say were fueled by unusually hot oceans and higher air humidity ...
As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction is on policies and programs to mitigate the impact of climate change to the environment which is characterized by the following: [1] Global warming; Greenhouse effect; Rising of sea levels; Shifts in meteorological patterns
The Climate Change Commission (CCC) is the primary government policy-making body in the Philippines tasked with coordinating, monitoring and evaluating government initiatives to ensure that climate change is taken into account in all national, local, and sectoral development plans in order to create a climate-smart and resilient nation.
Climate justice is a type of environmental justice [1] that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. [2] Climate justice seeks to achieve an equitable distribution of both the burdens of climate change and the efforts to mitigate climate change . [ 3 ]
Marinel Sumook Ubaldo (born 1997) is a Filipina climate activist from the Philippines who helped to organise the first youth climate strike in her country. She testified as a community witness for the Philippines Commission on Human Rights as part of their investigation into corporate responsibility and whether the effects of climate change can be considered violations of Filipinos’ human ...