[OPINION] An urgent message from a young Filipina at COP27

'This Convention has been happening for 27 years, longer than I have been alive, and no real progress has come out of it.' ISpeak Opinion COP27

I write this at COP27, the United Nations Climate Conference, where governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations, civil society, and people from across the world gather to talk about a crisis we are unfortunately all too familiar with.

Like clockwork, climate-related disasters claim ruin to vulnerable countries like ours every single year. How many storms will it take until we see this crisis in sharp clarity, and do something about it? The past years of UN Climate Negotiations, especially since the historical Paris Agreement, have been focused on discussions of keeping global temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid global collapse. Getting state parties to commit to the Agreement and actually make radical changes — such as shutting down fossil fuel industries like gas, in order to meet the warming limit — is another story entirely.

I have seen it happen with my own eyes. Young people from our community came together and worked with activists, religious groups, women, and workers, and were able to stop a coal plant from being built on our island in 2018. We realized we weren’t “too young” to do something.

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