Yeb sano biography
Yeb sano biography
Yeb sano biography in tagalog.
To prevent future death and destruction, Yeb Saño is confronting the human rights violations that fuel climate change
“How then do we fight this battle?
We stand up against every kind of injustice.”
—Yeb Saño
For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia.
The tropical cyclone—one of the strongest in recorded history—left a massive trail of destruction, particularly in the Philippines, where it claimed thousands of lives.
At the time of the disaster, Saño’s brother, AG, an environmental and peace activist, was in the family’s hometown of Tacloban and helped gather bodies of the deceased in the aftermath.
“He counted at least 73 dead bodies carried by his own hands.
We lost friends, loved ones,” Saño said.
Just a few days later, the tragedy led Saño—then chief climate negotiator for the Philippines in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—to spe