During COP29's side event 'Unveiling the Money Trail: Climate Finance Accountability through Local Tracking and Validation' Financing the fight against climate change doesn’t come cheap. As the world grapples with increasingly severe climate impacts, the financial toll is staggering. Trillions of...
Extreme weather events battered developing countries this year despite their small contribution to climate change. The Philippines faced six successive storms in just a month which were intensified by climate crisis, the World Weather Attribution said. Top climate polluters still haven’t...
After two weeks of grueling negotiations, the conclusion of the 29th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku, Azerbaijan, left developing countries feeling disappointed. While perfection was not expected, hopes...
The Philippines is all set to power up with its grand target for renewable energy (RE) investments, but the missing plug is a workforce that can match the tempo of the industry’s lightning-fast spin. The Wind Energy Developers Association of the Philippines (WEDAP), led by Atty. Poch Ambrosio;...
The stage is set for a new round of debates and negotiations on tackling the climate crisis – and the promise of host country Azerbaijan is for the process not succumbing to a fault-finding frenzy. While Azerbaijan’s hosting of the COP29 climate diplomacy summit came as a last-minute decision...
On October 21 at midnight, tropical depression Kristine (Trami) entered the Philippine area of responsibility. What was first identified as a low-pressure area quickly grew into a severe tropical storm — battering much of the biggest island group in the country, Luzon. Images of flooded...
FILE - A volunteer pours water to cool a man off during a hot day in Karachi, Pakistan, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File) CHICAGO (AP) — For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it's ever been. And for the first time, the globe this year reached more...
Out of 193 countries, the Philippines placed first on the World Risk Index list, making it the most disaster-prone nation for three years. Not long after a typhoon lands here, severe floods sweep through poor neighborhoods to wipe out homes and take lives. And while the bayanihan spirit in...
Climate Reality Project branches from across the globe joined forces in Singapore for a four-day workshop on climate finance tracking and campaigning. The goal? To ensure developing countries receive the resources they desperately need to combat climate change. Organized by The Climate...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – As existential threats on vulnerable countries are escalating, one of the major action agendas being advanced in this year’s 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be operationalization of the...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – The host country of the 29th Conference of the Parties for Climate Change (COP29) is eyeing energy as well as trade bilateral cooperation with the Philippines, according to the chief foreign policy advisor of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev. In an interview during an official...
Reinforcing the stream of ‘clean energy finance’ for emerging economies is seen as the major stimulus on concretizing the major commitments in last year’s climate change summit and must also top the agenda in this year’s COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the...
