Although there are still “some people who argue that climate change is not real,” Trevor Lewis, deputy chief of mission of the British Embassy, said “many scientists are devoting their lives [to] studying climate change… People are actually taking serious steps to deal with this. Lots of scientific brains are looking at this.”
As the world awaited the arrival of “Baby Seven Billion,” who demographers say is likely to be born in Asia, the international community remained unable to make any significant headway on pending vital environmental issues at the recently concluded Doha Climate Change Conference in Qatar.
The government plans to modify the diesel engines of jeepneys and other public utility vehicles (PUVs) plying Metro Manila streets in a bid to reduce soot or “black carbon” emissions.
Renewable energy advocates and environmentalists are urging the government to harness the abundant “green” energy sources in Mindanao to solve the power shortage there.
Extreme weather and natural calamities like Tropical Storm “Ondoy” and Typhoon “Pedring” have cut down the country’s economic growth in past years, according to the vice chair of the Climate Change Commission (CCC).
As the country observes the National Climate Change Consciousness Week, a network of civil society groups has hailed President Aquino for signing the National Climate Change Action Plan which outlines the measures the government will undertake to address climate change.
President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday signed the first ever government’s action plan to respond to climate change, with his officials saying that his action will make him “one of the greenest president’’ in the country.
The rampage by back-to-back typhoons Pedring and Quiel again highlighted what environmental groups, scientists and the international community have been saying for the longest time. We are most vulnerable. Yet, aside from its troubling poverty, the Philippines is terribly lagging behind in responding to the urgent mitigating and adaptation measures that climate change requires.
Going green may be all the rage, but exactly how green are those projects? The Climate Change Commission is positioning itself as the Philippines’ “green auditor” that will evaluate the environmental projects being rolled out every year in terms of how these are helping save natural resources or preserve energy. The commission will take on [...]
The Climate Change Commission has declared that it will “strongly pursue” restricting the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags but will still consider the mission’s effects on the plastics business and the jobs it provides.
As cities and towns gradually shift from plastic bags to paper, the Climate Change Commission said the regulation of non-biodegradable bags would be “strongly pursued” but with due consultation with the plastics industry and consideration of possible effects on employment.
Climate Change Commission, the Aquino administration’s green governance team, is bringing a unique kind of conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to the country’s poorest provinces in order to protect their natural resources. Commission Vice Chair Mary Ann Lucille Sering said the agency is starting next month a program that would fund alternative livelihood programs in [...]
