Stronger public-private ties key to financing climate solutions
Both governments and businesses must enact reforms and strengthen collaborations to generate climate finance from the private sector
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
BAN Toxics calls for a ‘clean and green’ Peñafrancia fiesta
At least 250 tons of waste each day during the week-long celebration every year compared to the usual 95 tons daily trash yield
Indigenous peoples groups decry alleged dam-related construction projects
The project site falls within two adjoining Dumagat ancestral domains and will reportedly displace at least 15,000 tribal people
Philippines calls for more ambitious finance goal against climate change
The Philippines hosted the third in a series of dialogues aiming to develop a new collective goal for climate finance that would help vulnerable countries in addressing climate change impacts, culminating at the next climate summit in Egypt.
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Faith-based groups join calls to abandon Philippines’ nuclear power project
“Let us end the delusion that a nuclear power project will solve the country’s energy crisis,” said Rodne Galicha of Living Laudato Si Philippines
Church, green groups score victory against mining in southern Philippines
“The brave stance of the local government … is a win not only of the people of Mindanao, of the rights of nature, but also of accountability in governance”
Green groups laud Philippine bank’s exit from coal financing
BDO Unibank Inc. recognizes that the banking sector plays a “critical role” in the country’s transition to a low-carbon economy
Troubled waters: Residents accuse contractors of using dredging project to mine black sand
Cagayan Governor Manuel Mamba Sr. adamantly denied that the contractors are mining black sand in the town of Aparri
Consumers slam Meralco connivance in SMC blackmail
Gas prices have increased by almost 112% since last year and coal by 150%