Naderev Saño was named as one of the Top 10 Men Who Mattered in 2013 by Nature Journal that described Saño as the “Climate Conscience” for focusing the world’s attention to global warming following the destructive typhoon Yolanda.
Naderev Saño (Photo Credit:REUTERS/Kacper Pempel)
The Philippine’s climate commissioner Naderev Saño made worldwide headlines on November 20, when he started his fasting during the 14-day climate talks “until a meaning outcome.”
The sacrifice of Naderev Saño has resulted in the last-minute deal of delegates from international community to keep negotiations on track for the next major climate summit in 2015.
Naderev Saño is a climate change advocate since the year 1997, he served as part of the NGO delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also dedicated the acknowledgement he got “to all the people around the world confronting inequity, injustice, and the risks of a planetary system gone awry.”he told Manila Bulletin Online.
The Top 10 Who Mattered Naderev Saño joined the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), together with other global organizations, in a monthly Day of Fasting for Climate Change beginning in January 1.
The University of the Philippines-Diliman graduate said they are launching a program which is similar to the fasting he and other concerned groups in the climate talks did: the #FastForTheClimate campaign.
Aside from Naderev Saño also in the list are Shoukhrat Mitalipov, or the ‘cloning chief”, who developed a line of stem cells from a cloned human embryo; Kathryn Clancy, an anthropologist who “unearthed disturbing trends in sexual (–foul word(s) removed–)aults at field sites; and Henry Snaith or the “Sun worshipper” who boosted the efficiency of solar cells this year.