Midnight. Climate. Survival.
Posted on the Agam Agenda Youtube channel. Seven poets join the call for #MidnightClimateSurvival, urging countries to take stronger climate action now. In response to lines from the poem “Midnight”, by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Ambassador for Culture for the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), the poets speak of the pain of collective loss under the climate crisis but also deliver a message of solidarity, mutuality, and hope. This video poem brings together voices from Majuro, Sagada, Willemsted, Maribojoc, Kathmandu, and the diaspora. Jetñil-Kijiner is joined by Gawani Domogo (Sagada, Philippines), an award-winning indigenous writer recognized for her poetry in Kankanaey; María [...]
UN climate summit reactive: Heed the call for urgent climate action
NEW YORK, 23 September 2019 – Reacting to the recently concluded United Nations Climate Action summit here, Renato Redentor Constantino, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, said: “We applaud UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for injecting far more urgency into climate action by putting on the spot countries with the means to act but who through their inaction are pushing the most vulnerable countries closer to irreversible ruin. Meaningful contributions have been pledged today but we need all countries to now unite in confronting the climate emergency. Will we lift the death warrant that children today face, [...]