Green activists storm gas, LNG financiers, stakeholders meet in Manila
The Philippine Gas and LNG Investment Summit is the first of its kind in the country
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2022
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Articles by LiCAS News
Sep
2022
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Asian activists call for increase of climate finance
The need to include the “finance for loss and damage and reparations for climate debt” as a crucial part of new climate finance goals
Sep
2022
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Philippines opens ‘Season of Creation’ with call to change ‘abusive ways’
“Listen to the voice begging us to change our abusive ways,” urged Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines
Mar
2022
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Greenpeace Philippines welcomes proposed global treaty to end plastic pollution
The plastics treaty mandate recognizes that every stage of plastic production and use—from extraction of raw materials from fossil fuels, to disposal—is problematic
Mar
2022
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Attacks against environmental defenders quadrupled ahead of Philippine polls
There is a 483 percent spike in the number of environmental defenders under attack and a 350 percent increase in incidents after the start of the election period
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Green group challenges TVI’s ‘clean coal’ claim, cites environmental risks
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Philippine policymakers must listen to the Cries of the Poor
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Green group slams mining fiscal bill’s royalty cap on Indigenous peoples
Under the proposed law, the ICC/IP shall be paid not more than 2% of the gross output of minerals produced from the ancestral domain
Cebu residents rally against coal plant expansion, urge Aboitiz Power to prioritize health
Earlier this month, the Department of Health said that TVI had not yet submitted the required HIA for its planned third coal plant
HRW raises alarm as PH tops Asia for environmental defender murders
Global Witness pointed out that “more environmental defenders have been killed in the country than anywhere else in the region over the past 11 years.”