GREENPEACE has warned that saving the planet from the current climate and environmental crisis has become more complex. “With this 50th year (of Greenpeace) director of Greenpeace Southeast being celebrated, we Asia, during the Pandesal Forum have to remind ourselves that titled “Environmental Issues in much work needs to be done. the Philippines and Asia” on Greenpeace exists because this Wednesday. fragile Earth and the people He mentioned the various who depend on a healthy planet challenges that the world is facing deserve a voice. The world needs today, including the climate solutions. The world needs positive crisis, plastic pollution crisis, change. The world needs massive loss of the world’s foraction. Greenpeace exists in ESTS, SEVERE DECLINE OF OUR fiSHERies, many key battlegrounds, involving nuclear radiation and waste battles we cannot afford to dangers, as well as the global lose,” said Yeb Saño, executive health crisis, that has led to economic crisis in many countries across the globe.

Globally, about 4.8 to 12.7 milLION TONS OF PLASTIC fiND THEIR WAY into the oceans each year with Asia contributing to over 80 percent, according to the World Bank.

After China and Indonesia, the Philippines ranks as the world’s third-biggest polluter with about 2.7 million metric tons of plastic waste generated each year, a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature’s said.

While the Philippines is emitting only 0.3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the country is one of the most vulnerable to the harsh effects of climate change such as super typhoons, drought and the superheating of the oceans.

The Climate Change Finance and Disaster Risks had said that on a long-term basis, the Philippines is expected to incur P177 billion ($3.6 billion) per year in losses to public and private assets due to typhoons and earthquakes.

“We do not need to trouble ourselves why this is happening in our time, but what we need to decide is what to do with the time that has been given us. I believe that among many, we have been given that time,” Saño said.

“I’d like to believe that joining hands with Greenpeace and supporting our mission, and taking action every single day of your lives, is what you have decided to do with the time given you. We are not few. We are many, among millions of people from every corner of the globe who care about people and the planet, and who make the work of Greenpeace possible,” he added.

Also on Wednesday, the group called on the national government to regulate plastic production and enact a strong ban on single-use plastics and non-environmentally acceptable products as part of urgent climate plans.

This, after Greenpeace released a report showing how consumer goods companies are driving the expansion of plastic production.

The “The Climate Emergency

Unpacked: How Consumer Goods Companies are Fueling Big Oil’s Plastic Expansion” also exposed business links between the world’s largest brands and fossil fuel companies — some of which operate in the Philippines — and the lack of transparency around emissions from plastic packaging.

“It’s clear that Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Unilever — all known brands in our country — and other consumer goods companies are not just responsible for plastic pollution but also play key roles in the fossil fuel industry’s expansion and the climate crisis,” Marian Ledesma, Greenpeace Zero Waste campaigner, said in a statement.