The controversial election of Bongbong Marcos as President of the Philippines on May 9th overshadowed another Filipino news item of global importance that week. After a nearly 7-year-long inquiry, the Philippines Human Rights Commission published a huge document detailing how human rights are infringed by climate change, who is responsible, and what courts could do about it.

ELCI Assistant Editor Bertie Harrison-Broninski talked to the Executive Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Yeb Saño, about the groundbreaking report.

Further reading: 

You can read the report in full here. Read Greenpeace International's press release about the report here. Read Greenpeace's summary of the Filipino presidential candidates' climate platforms here.

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Erscheinungs­datum: 9.6.2022, 16:00:00