Joanna Sustento is a climate justice advocate who courageously shares her tragic personal experience in the aftermath of Haiyan, the strongest typhoon recorded in history which devastated her home in Tacloban City, Philippines in 2013. Three years after the onslaught of typhoon Haiyan, she reflects on the grief and trauma at the loss of her immediate family members during this unprecedented catastrophe. Sustento challenges the world to emphasize the real human costs of climate change and stresses the need for climate issues to be deeply humanized in order to be taken seriously. She refuses to be a victim of climate change and is striving to create a future where tragedies like the one her family suffered are not repeated. Photo credit: Joanna Sustento/Greenpeace
