16/11/2025
๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ, ๐๐ง๐. ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐, ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐
The forthcoming COP30 convenes at a time when millions of our fellow Filipinos are grappling with seemingly unrelenting climate disasters: the recent super-typhoon that ravaged our coastlines and communities, successive earthquakes and floodings that claimed hundreds of lives, devastated ecosystems, and destroyed livelihoods. Our country is among the worldโs most vulnerable to climate change and a critical biodiversity hotspot. We are losing out as a consequence of bad governance and absence of a visionary leadership. Not due to the so-called โwrath of natureโ. Instead of systematically advancing adaptation and resilience, some of our adaptation measures, such as flood-control infrastructure, have increasingly become a loot bag for our political leaders and their dynastic families.
We are in deep moral and ecological crisis.
The Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI) stands before COP30 against this stark backdrop. We have a clear and urgent message: climate justice demands real accountability, nature-based solutions, community-focused and a paradigm shift from the old systems that enable and perpetuate the climate crisis.
1. ๐ฏ๐๐๐
๐ด๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
The Loss and Damage Fund must serve its true and voluntary contributions, or mechanisms that only pass the burdens onto vulnerable countries like the Philippines. The Fund must be predictable, sustainable, grant-based, accessible, and anchored on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR-RC).
2. ๐ต๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Carbon markets, offsets, geoengineering, and other profit-driven schemes only weaken the ability of Nature to protect our vulnerable communities, yet enable major polluters to free themselves of accountability and perpetuate such false solutions. PMPI calls on COP30 to reject these false solutions and instead promote Mother-Earth-Centric activities that will ensure the protection of our people and planet
3. ๐ต๐ ๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐
๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Corporationsโespecially those with long histories of environmental destructionโmust not be allowed to shape climate negotiations or define the pathways forward. We strongly oppose the corporate takeover of climate policy spaces and the greenwashing of harmful practices disguised as โinnovationโ or โtransition strategies.โ Climate solutions must reject corporate-driven and profit oriented solutions. It should instead institutionalize mechanisms to protect Nature so we are also protected, empower communities beyond the buzzword of being resilient, establish effective accountability mechanism
4. ๐จ๐
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐-๐ฉ๐๐๐๐
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Nature-based solutions must be rooted in ecological integrity, community rights, culture and identity of peoples and territorial defenseโnot in commodification or extraction. We call for:
An immediate stop to over-extraction, large-scale mining, and fossil fuel expansion.
Protection and regeneration of forests, biodiversity, watersheds, and ecosystems.
Recognition of Indigenous knowledge, stewardship, and sovereignty.
Restoration initiatives that prioritize ecosystem health over profit.
5. ๐จ ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐, ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐
A truly just transition means shifting away from fossil fuels entirely, protecting Mother Nature ,environmental defenders, and ensuring that ecosystems and communitiesโnot corporationsโare at the heart of planning and decision-making.
COP30 must deliver more than words. It must deliver justice. PMPI joins Mother Nature, frontline communities, civil society, and global movements in demanding a World Order that ensures a climate future built on accountability, equity, and the protection of our common home.
