‘Walk for Climate Change’

Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO / NINO JESUS ORBETA

MANILA, Philippines–Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle will lead the “Walk for Climate,” a call for urgent action against climate change, on Friday.

The Walk for Climate highlights the “Season of Creation,” a campaign that hopes to make Filipino Catholics “more proactive in protecting and preserving the environment.”

The walk, which will start with a Mass at the Manila Cathedral at 6:30 a.m., will carry messages on the environment calling on the government to take urgent steps to reduce climate risk by stopping the use of coal plants for energy generation, and stopping aggressive and destructive developments such as reclamation, agricultural land conversions, and mining.–Tina G. Santos