John Leo Algo has been appointed nationwide coordinator of Aksyon Kilma Pilipinas, with a mandate to interact in coverage growth and venture monitoring on local weather points within the Philippines.
Aksyon Klima Pilipinas was established in 2007 as a nationwide community of 40 civil society networks and organisations like Greenpeace Philippines, WWF Philippines, and the Manila Observatory, which advocate completely different local weather change points.
Algo, who has been a member of the organisation since 2020 as a part of the secretariat commitee, has supplied technical experience and administrative help on tasks selling local weather motion within the Philippines.
He takes over from Melvin Purzuelo, who served because the organisation’s nationwide coordinator for the previous 5 years.
Algo stated he’s happy with Aksyon Klima’s latest accomplishments together with crafting the nation’s goal to scale back dangerous greenhouse gases in 2021 and advising the Catholic Bishops’ Convention of the Philippines on releasing its pastoral letter on local weather emergency final 12 months.
The Catholic church, which claims over 86 per cent of the Philippines’ close to 110 million inhabitants as followers – the most important in Asia – has a outstanding position within the nation, with its means to affect public debate on points starting from politics to the surroundings.
John Leo Algo (heart) joins local weather and human rights advocates from varied organisations on a 30-day solidarity stroll from Manila to Tacloban, Leyte, on 8 October, in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Storm Haiyan. Picture: Geenpeace
“We achieved this regardless of the challenges introduced by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the sociopolitical circumstances within the Philippines,” stated Algo.
“My job is to now construct on these beneficial properties, increase the community’s actions and attain, and preserve, if not strengthen, our place inside the local weather motion panorama on the nationwide, regional, and world degree.”
Algo is presently deputy government director for programmes and campaigns for Residing Laudato Si, an environmental advocacy group affiliated with the Catholic Church, the place he leads campaigns for the simply transition and fossil gas divestment.
He’s additionally a member of the United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP) youth advisory group on environmental and local weather justice, the place he contributes views and suggestions from younger voices of the Asia-Pacific, with a view to speed up and implement the local weather motion agenda.
When he was 22 years previous, he turned the youngest creator of the Philippine Local weather Change Fee-led local weather change evaluation report, which synthesised scientific data from worldwide and native literature with a view to present an evaluation of local weather impacts within the nation and establish gaps in scientific literature. The report accommodates complete data on local weather science to information policy-makers in the Philippines.
He graduated with a level in environmental science from the Ateneo de Manila College in 2014. He took his masteral research in atmospheric science from the identical college.
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