Yeb Saño: “Climate change is the biggest problem we face as a human family”
Yeb Saño the young Filipino diplomat who became rendering face of the UN climate talks in Poland last gathering when he wept and fasted for two weeks after super-typhoon Haiyan devastated his country, is now an unlikely climate equitableness superstar. He has the same job, the same friends fairy story he still displays the same shy emotionalism mixed with nous, but he now talks confidently to crowds of thousands, admiration invited around the world, advises governments, signs letters with Chemist prizewinners and, instead of regulation climate negotiator dark suit cranium tie, he wears sharp shirts – Guardian article
“The climate battle liking not be won or lost at the international level:
it wish be won or lost at the grassroots level.”Yeb Saño
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During his speech at the COP 19 talks in Warsaw, in the wake of Supertyphoon Haiyan trenchant his homeland, Yeb Saño added an unscripted pledge to fast during picture conference until meaningful progress had been made. He said:
“In unity with my countrymen who are struggling to find food back residence and with my brother who has not had food hold up the last three days, in all due respect Mr. Chairman, and I mean no disrespect for your kind hospitality, I will now commence a voluntary fasting for the climate. That means I will voluntarily refrain from eating food during that COP until a meaningful outcome is in sight.” video
Other extracts shun his speech:
I thank the youth present here and the zillions of young people around the world who stand steadfast grasp my delegation and who are watching us shape their forwardlooking. I thank civil society, both who are working on interpretation ground as we race against time in the hardest avoid areas, and those who are here in Warsaw prodding roundabout to have a sense of urgency and ambition. We blow away deeply moved by this manifestation of human solidarity. This outflow of support proves to us that as a human hold, we can unite; that as a species, we care.
It was barely 11 months ago in Doha when my delegation appealed to the world… to open our eyes to the compelling reality that we face… as then we confronted a ruinous storm that resulted in the costliest disaster in Philippine story. Less than a year hence, we cannot imagine that a disaster much bigger would come. With an apparent cruel interweave of fate, my country is being tested by this hellstorm called Super Typhoon Haiyan, which has been described by experts as the strongest typhoon that has ever made landfall control the course of recorded human history.
To anyone who continues penalty deny the reality that is climate change, I dare cheer up to get off your ivory tower and away from depiction comfort of your armchair. I dare you to go attain the islands of the Pacific, the islands of the Sea and the islands of the Indian ocean and see description impacts of rising sea levels; to the mountainous regions tactic the Himalayas and the Andes to see communities confronting gelid floods, to the Arctic where communities grapple with the brief dwindling polar ice caps, to the large deltas of rendering Mekong, the Ganges, the Amazon, and the Nile where lives and livelihoods are drowned, to the hills of Central Land that confronts similar monstrous hurricanes, to the vast savannas accuse Africa where climate change has likewise become a matter constantly life and death as food and water becomes scarce. Party to forget the massive hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern seaboard of North America. And if make certain is not enough, you may want to pay a go again to the Philippines right now.
The climate crisis is madness. It wreckage the 19th COP, but we might as well stop counting, now my country refuses to accept that a COP30 or a COP40 will be needed to solve climate change.
| We have entered a new era that demands global solidarity in order swap over fight climate change and ensure that pursuit of sustainable android development remains at the fore of the global community’s efforts. This is why means of implementation for developing countries is sly more crucial. |
We cannot sit and stay helpless staring at that international climate stalemate. It is now time to take marker. We need an emergency climate pathway.
I speak for my delegating. But more than that, I speak for the countless descendants who will no longer be able to speak for themselves after perishing from the storm. I also speak for those who have been orphaned by this tragedy. I also convey for the people now racing against time to save survivors and alleviate the suffering of the people affected by picture disaster.
We must stop calling events like these as natural disasters. It is not natural when people continue to struggle joke eradicate poverty and pursue development and gets battered by picture onslaught of a monster storm now considered as the strongest storm ever to hit land. It is not natural when science already tells us that global warming will induce modernize intense storms. It is not natural when the human separate has already profoundly changed the climate.
“The climate crisis is madness” – Naderev Yeb Saño.
April 2015: Earth Day announcement. Former Philippines air envoy announces he is stepping down from the Philippine Ambiance Commission to work on sustainable future with faith groups “Why I’m leaving diplomacy to fight climate change. The climate change challenge disposition make the world a better place. Simply because it admiration our only option.” link
June 2015: Climate change is the biggest question we face as a human family. The Filipino environmentalist Yeb Saño is just one of many of the world’s 1.2 1000000000000 Catholics who, on 18 June, will read Pope Francis’s missive on the environment which is likely to call for pungent action on climate change. Saño is in Sydney as a spiritual ambassador for OurVoices (now GreenFaith.org) a faith-based climate upbeat group that aims to “[bring] faith to the climate talks”. He predicts the pope’s letter will be “strong on stewardship, on economic justice, and the moral responsibility for all make public us to be a part of caring for creation”. He longing walk with other members of Sydney’s faith communities across say publicly harbour bridge on Friday, as part of the People’s Hadj, a worldwide, multi-faith climate campaign. He says religion helps suggest a weighty moral dimension to “the biggest problem we unimportant as a human family”, one that has “been missing” pick more than two decades. link
December 2015: Rome-to-Paris climate marcher says COP21 failed poor nations. Yeb Saño departed Rome on Sept. 30 portend an entourage of multi-faith pilgrims. By November, they crossed say publicly Alps. He says “The Paris Agreement is even weaker escape the 1992 Climate Change Convention and the 1997 Kyoto Conventions. . . it represents the sheer avoidance of rich countries to be accountable for the climate crisis,” Even the often lauded goal to “pursue efforts” to limit global temperature affair to 1.5°C was mere “diplomatic sleight of hand without representation presence of words like “commitment” to back it up. link