Category: climate change
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Japanese Bank JBIC Urged to Say “Sayonara to Fossil Fuels”
PRESS RELEASE | Climate advocates rallied in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila to urge the government of Japan to implement the total phase-out of public financing for fossil fuel projects which is “causing the imminent catastrophe that is staring humanity in the face, by way of record-breaking heat,…
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Protest vs Biden, Kishida and Marcos summit
Climate advocates stage a protest near the US embassy in Manila on April 11, 2024, ahead of the trilateral meeting of US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. in Washington D.C. They called on both the US and Japan to “Stop Dirty…
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Climate Campaigners Rally vs Asia’s Top Dirty Insurers
Member of the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) hold a protest action in Makati City, the Philippines’ prime business district on March 1, 2024 to demand that the top insurers end their support for coal, oil and gas companies. The climate campaigners claimed that “big companies which…
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Labtingaw Fish Dying in Dipolog City Amid Poverty
LABTINGAW FISH BE WITH YOU. Mitzi Rubio, 29 and a mother of two arranges her labtingaw, a significantly less salty and less dry version of bulad (dried fish) near their house on stilts in a swamp area in Dipolog City, Mindanao on December 23, 2023. She said her husband’s income…
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Climate Campaigners Score Japan’s Dirty Energy Push in Asia on Eve of Tokyo Summit
Climate campaigners urge Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to “demonstrate climate leadership” by putting Japan’s money where it should be – investing in renewable energy instead of promoting more fossil fuel projects and false solutions under the guise of “decarbonizing Asia.” Activists held several coordinated mobilizations in the Philippines and…
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Civil Society Groups Join Global Day of Action for Climate Justice on December 9
PRESS RELEASEDEC 7, 2023 Civil society groups in the Philippines are preparing mobilizations in key cities on Saturday, December 9 as part of more than 300 actions all over the world to demand urgent climate action while governments are meeting at the 28th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework…
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CSO leaders call to support UN Tax Convention, end corporate tax abuses, and reject OECD’s Tax Agenda
NEWS RELEASE13 November 2023 Support for a UN Convention on inclusive and effective tax cooperation resounded in an international conference on tax justice here as the Convention is being deliberated at the UN. Independent experts and CSO leaders from the Philippines, Indonesia, Zambia, Argentina, Canada and other parts of the…
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Asia Groups Rally Against IMF-World Bank and G7, Demands Justice and Reparations for Debt, Climate and Economic Crises
Members of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) took to the streets today, scoring the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and G7 governments for worsening economic conditions in Global South countries and for further exacerbating the climate crisis. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan,…
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IN PICTURES: Climate Groups Protest vs Japanese Fossil Fuel Investors
Filipino climate campaigners join an Asia-wide protest rally against major Japanese banks’ continued funding of oil and gas projects. Climate activists from the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ), Sanlakas, Oriang, and K4K call on financial giants Mizuho, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group…
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