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Dear Readers:
This month, FOP underscores the clamor for
climate justice, as world leaders gear up for climate change talks at the
United Nations in Bangkok. The issue includes Herbert Docena’s special report
on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) money trail in the Philippines, which
demonstrates the contradictions and failures of market-based solutions to
address the climate crisis. The first part of Docena’s research uncovers a web
of large conglomerates and “dirty” businesses controlled by a handful of
Philippine elites, with the CDM feeding into mining, logging and power
interests, rather than changing business and production practices that are
detrimental to the climate. This month’s FOP also includes Isagani Serrano’s
‘Justice to Cool the Planet’ and a statement from Our World is Not For Sale,
which sums up the key points in a forthcoming study on Trade and Climate Change
that will be launched on October 2.
Contents:
The CDM in the Philippines: Rewarding Polluters
by Herbert Docena
Change Trade, Not Our Climate: Statement from the
OWINFS Trade and Climate Working Group
Justice to Cool the Planet by Isagani Serrano
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Change Trade, Not our Climate! |
One way or another change is on the way: if we don’t change the rules of the global economy we won’t be able to limit climate change
Why? Because current global trade rules and priorities:
• contribute to climate change
• stop governments taking action on climate change at home
• prevent effective intergovernmental collaboration and
• limit countries’ and communities’ ability to adapt to a changing climate
Trade rules also contributed to the current financial crisis.
Members of Our World Is Not For Sale believe the answer is clear: we must change the rules of the global economy if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
A new approach, that puts the long-term health of the planet and the well-being of all its people before short-term considerations, would be better for our climate, better for people and better for our economies.
Climate Justice! - the kind of change we need right now!
Download the whole document here.
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Dear Readers,
This month, Focus on the Philippines delves deeper into the Cory moment. Here, we gather pieces that do not stop at describing the sense of loss, grief, awe and gratitude that Cory’s passing has evoked in many of us. Going beyond mere eulogies, these commentaries show us that honoring the departed entails both recounting what has been achieved and remembering what still needs to be done. There is Edsa and there is Mendiola; the restoration of liberal democracy and the return of the oligarchs; People power, the death of dictatorship and the persistence of debt. Our contributors share how Cory has inspired us, but at the same time spell out where she has disappointed and failed us; Perhaps, to remind us of the limited legacy a single person can leave behind; the folly of pinning all our hopes on individual heroes; and the difficult and chronic challenges that only sustained collective intervention can surmount. Moreover, this period of contemplating Cory stresses the striking similarities between 1986 and 2010 as critical, historic junctures in the Philippines. Noting how Cory’s passing resulted in a ‘reawakening’, we also highlight how parallel conditions compel us to get out of our comfort zones and take action today, much like the grieving widow did in her time.
Cory Aquino can be regarded as a confounding contradiction, a symbol that captures our conflicted state as a people, an icon representing the many concerns and issues we still need to successfully confront, reconcile and resolve. Clearly, the struggles Cory Aquino waged, the movements she led, the causes she inspired were never hers alone.
Read on and reassess what Cory Aquino has left behind for you.
Contents:
CORY AFTER DEATH by Herbert Docena
CORY AND THE CREDITORS by Akbayan! Representative Walden Bello
A LEGACY OF UNFINISHED TASKS by Prof. Randy David
CELEBRATE WHAT CORY TRULY REPRESENTS by Emmanuel Hizon
THINKING ABOUT CORY AQUINO by Carolina Malay
FAREWELL TO THE MOTHER OF ‘PEOPLE POWER’ by Shiela Coronel
A NEW CORY by Men Sta Ana
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