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Climate Activist Spotlight: Mitzi Jonelle Tan

Climate Activist Spotlight: Mitzi Jonelle Tan

Mitzi Jonelle Tan is a 24-year-old climate justice activist based in Metro Manila, Philippines. According to her biography on Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines, Tan has long held an interest in climate action. “At the age of nine, she would go up to strangers and tell them about greenhouse gases and global warming,” the biography reads. Later in 2017, when meeting with Lumad Indigenous leaders in her country, “she decided to fully commit her life to activism,” as they made her realize “collective action and system change is what we need for a just and green society,” the biography outlines.

Weekly Climate News

November 5, 2020

  • The Filipino government announced that proposals for coal power plants will no longer be accepted. The significant policy change is aimed to increase involvement in the renewable energy sector.

  • The United Nations summit stated that $700 billion will be needed to reverse human-induced destruction of the natural world. 

  • Gray wolves will no longer be included on the endangered species lists recognized by the United States government. Read this article on why. 

  • Hurricane Eta made landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane. 

  • A decline in air traffic as a result of the pandemic has directly affected the quality of weather forecasts, as the amount of atmospheric data collected by commercial airliners has decreased. 

  • Check out these six climate-related art installations referred to as “Artivism.” 

  • A new research study found that the United States produces nearly five times as much plastic pollution as previously thought.  

  • The United States has been urged to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord by a coalition of international investors. 

  • A wind farm in Berlevåg, Norway is being used to produce hydrogen and green ammonia (renewable and carbon-free ammonia) which holds massive potential for renewable energy development.

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