By Juvarya Veltkamp The Importance of COP26 I’m writing from Glasgow this week, where there is a lot at stake with the United Nations climate negotiations currently underway, commonly known as COP26. Nearly 200 countries signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, committing to limit global overheating to within 1.5°C of warming. But the latest United Nations Emissions Gap Report finds that commitments known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) ahead of the Glasgow talks onl

By Lou Collin Every year, Climate Reality Leaders across the globe mobilize for a day of action to create an enormous wave of simultaneous advocacy that spans over 24 hours worldwide. I must admit that initially, this annual event, called 2 4 Hours of Reality , raised skepticism in me: it doesn’t take an expert to know that the climate crisis will not be resolved in one day. However, it does take mass grassroots mobilization to create the political will that is needed to cre

By Jazmine Cate L. Pama The doers and sufferers have been familiar with the term “Climate Crisis” in recent years. But what is it really? It’s the maturity of humanity’s little baby called “climate change.” It’s so normalized that it’s commercialized by the corporate world, which is also the same world that contributes a huge chunk to this crisis. It’s so normalized that we don’t treat it as what it is - an emergency. If it’s something hugely present in our daily lives, the

By Sofia Aldovino All things come with a price tag and you have to decide whether you're willing to pay the cost. It began this way: Inside the comfort of your living room, you're watching the television. You face the news with trepidation as you found out that fifty years from now, the planet you're living in will not be the same as exactly it is today. Expect a world of melting ice caps, rising global temperatures, mass extinctions of species and coral reefs, starvation, an

By Judiel Marie del Mar Grassroots movements have sprouted all over the world in an attempt to push for their respective advocacies. Many would say that this is the power of collective action. What we call the "bottom-up" approach consists of these tiny sparks of change at a local level that brings about ripples that eventually drive the decision-makers to flow with the waves. With grassroots actions, the people are empowered to actively advocate for change in government poli