Greenpeace hopes Congress can pass bills to address climate crisis

During the Committee Meeting on Climate Change on June 4, Thursday, Greenpeace expressed its support to resolutions filed by Reps. Loren Legarda and Edgar Chatto, which both seek to declare climate emergency and ensure enhanced and coherent climate actions in the executive and legislative agenda of the government.

Greenpeace campaigner Virginia Benosa-Llorin said that beyond the House resolutions, curbing the climate crisis must be integrated into government-recovery plans to equip the country for looming emergencies arising from the ongoing climate crisis even beyond the pandemic. In a position paper submitted to the Philippine Congress, Greenpeace pointed out that lawmakers must pass bills that will hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their roles in driving climate change and inflicting harm on the Filipino people; demand other countries, particularly industrialized nations, to enhance their emissions reduction to meet the Paris Agreement’s aim of limiting global temperature rise within 1.

“We believe it is only right that the Philippine government issues a formal declaration of climate emergency. While the COVID-19 crisis has been compared to a sprint, the climate crisis is a marathon: its impacts are deeper and more far-reaching; and it is a crisis that we have faced for decades and which future generations of Filipinos will face for several more decades to come,” the paper read.

It also recommended lawmakers to mandate fossil fuel companies to submit plans to minimize dangerous contributions to the climate crisis in anticipation of the conclusion of the Commission on Human Rights landmark investigation on the responsibility of 47 fossil fuel companies in human rights harms linked to the climate crisis.

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