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Call for Climate Justice! Manila/Amsterdam, 7 Sep 2021 — Filipino environmental activists joined the call of civil society groups around the world for an inclusive climate summit amid the worsening COVID pandemic. The activists joined over 1,500 civil society groups from 130 countries, members of Climate Action Network (CAN), to call for a postponement of the substantive negotiations of the COP26[1] due to the COP presidency and the UK government’s failure to ensure a safe, equitable, and inclusive summit.[2] Expressing concern that COP26 must be a platform where highly vulnerable communities and sectors are heard, Kyle Aboy, Filipino youth climate activist, supports the call to postpone COP26. “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released this year clearly demonstrates that climate change is a threat that needs transnational collaboration among countries. The Philippines, belonging to countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, must have inclusi...

New UN Report also finds that domestic wild meat use significantly increases risk of zoonotic disease   Bonn, 15 September 2021- The taking of animals for wild meat consumption within national borders is having significant impacts on most terrestrial species protected under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), according to a new report released today. The report is the first of its kind and covered 105 CMS species.   Among its findings, the report found that wild meat is often a key use and a major driver for legal and illegal hunting, particularly of ungulates and primates, and especially during times of conflict or famine and in the course of land-use change. This has led to drastic declines and extinctions of several migratory terrestrial mammal populations. 70% of hunted CMS terrestrial mammal species are used for wild meat consumption.  67 of the 105 species studied were recorded as hunted. Of these 67 species, th...

Speakers and panelists during the Let's Go Bakuna Town Hall entitled 'Public-Private Discussion on Safe ways to Open the Economy in the Age of Community Quarantines’ Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion, together with Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos, led a discussion with various government officials and members of the business community in a town hall entitled, ’Public-Private Discussion on Safe ways to Open the Economy in the Age of Community Quarantines.’ The discussion was attended by implementers of the COVID-19 response program of the government and Metro Manila mayors, with over 1,000 business owners and also viewed by more than 100,000 audiences across different online platforms. During the discussion, Concepcion expressed his support to the expected implementation of granular lockdowns across select LGUs in Metro Manila which were identified as high-risk areas. "The shi...