“Ban on new mining agreements should be part of climate change mitigation,” said Dionito Cabillas, convenor of the ecumenical group Isaiah Ministry
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
Earlier this month, the Department of Health said that TVI had not yet submitted the required HIA for its planned third coal plant
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.”
Mainstreaming L&D will likely take years, even decades, given various challenges that also make popularizing climate change difficult
Data from Kalikasan PNE indicates even graver figures, with 21 defenders killed and 11 abductions of 19 defenders reported.