National Convening on Climate Disinformation in the Philippines: Legitimising Attacks on Indigenous Peoples – Asia Centre

National Convening on Climate Disinformation in the Philippines: Legitimising Attacks on Indigenous Peoples – Asia Centre

In the Philippines, attacks against Indigenous Peoples (IPs) are increasingly legitimised by climate disinformation which falsely labels their environmental defence as terrorism, enabling the continued use of ancestral lands for industrial expansion.This was the central finding presented at a national convening reviewing the preliminary outcomes of Asia Centre’s forthcoming report Climate Disinformation in the Philippines: Legitimising Attacks o…