Thank you for working with us to protect what we love: our only earth!

Over the past year, your support has allowed us to continue our work to uphold environmental and climate justice. Although each year brings new challenges, we have weathered these together, and your donations have enabled us to step up our campaigns towards a green, just, and peaceful future.

Our biggest win in the past few months was the issuance of the Report on the National Inquiry on Climate Change. The report is the product of a landmark inquiry that climate survivors, communities, and Greenpeace together with other groups put forward to the Commission on Human Rights in 2015. This historic report sets a solid legal basis for asserting that climate-destructive business activities by fossil fuel companies contribute to human rights harms: companies need to show accountability, and beyond that, governments must ensure that the rights of people in the face of climate impacts, must be protected.

Working with people and groups to grow the movement for our planet has been a constant theme in our work. We mobilized almost 20,000 people to call on e-commerce companies Lazada and Shopee to stop using unnecessary plastics and put Zero Waste policies in place. We worked with more than 500 youth leaders, as well as youth groups and young local entrepreneurs, to get them to connect with their local government units and actively participate in the policy and civic spaces of their localities.

This work has borne fruit. Although Lazada and Shopee didn’t respond publicly, Shopee changed their policy requiring the use of bubble wraps. Tacloban City issued a Climate Emergency Resolution through the efforts of Tacloban Climate Strikers led by a Greenpeace volunteer. In Congress, Rep. Edgar Chatto, Chair of the House Committee on Climate Change, issued a Resolution “Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives for Climate Justice.” And in the lead-up to the national elections, we ensured climate justice was a major agenda for candidates, as well as for voters, as we asked them to protect what they love.

Over the last year, we’ve also worked with a broad movement of youth advocates: amplifying their voices in the face of climate anxiety, working with them to help stop destructive projects such as PAREX, supporting their campaigns to eliminate plastic pollution, and bolstering their work to bring solutions to communities, especially in times of crisis and climate catastrophe. We mobilized youth agency and solidarity to show how activism and people participation within a healthy democracy is essential to a healthy environment.

Our work has been varied but towards our common goal. We are at the beginning of the most crucial decade for the climate. We’re already planning to step up the work in 2023 and we look forward to continuing working with you, for people and the planet.

Lea Guerrero Country Director Greenpeace Philippines