

Lidy Nacpil (Coordinator, Senior Program Manager for Transformation of Energy Systems)
“Public development banks’ current efforts to align their investment portfolios with Paris commitments must result in a robust mechanism that covers not just coal, but also oil and fossil gas development. Instead of pouring more money into gas plants and infrastructure, public development banks must drastically shift their investments to sustainable renewables and help Asia to accelerate its clean energy transition before time runs out.”
Lidy Nacpil (Coordinator, Senior Program Manager for Climate Justice)
“The environment is about life. The climate is not just an environmental issue, and environmental issues are not just about the environment, it’s about people’s lives. Other struggles would be moot if we allowed the planet to warm to a level where all life on earth would change from the way that we know it profoundly.”
Mae Buenaventura (Senior Program Manager for Debt and Green Economic Building)
“What we must fight for is not just debt cancelation but reparations, for the historical social, economic, ecological and climate debt owed to our people. And we must wage this fight as part of a broader struggle to transform the fundamentally flawed system that has been built on and perpetuated injustice and inequality in various dimensions, while devastating our people and our planet.”
Jeannie Manipon (Senior Program Manager for Development Finance)
“National tax systems are biased in favor of corporations and the elites and exacerbate inequalities. We see a similar pattern in the international tax system. We call on governments and the international community to make taxes work for people and the planet, to adopt progressive and gender-just fiscal and tax policies, to transform tax systems so that they are not prone to elite’s abuse, and to adopt global tax rules that help reduce inequalities between countries.”
Merci Paredes (Senior HR, Finance, and Administration Officer)
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