SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SM Prime), one of Southeast Asia’s largest integrated property developers, received top accolades at the 2024 Energy Efficiency Excellence Awards and Sustainable Energy Awards organized by the Department of Energy (DOE). At the Energy Efficiency Excellence Awards, SM...
My recent participation at the UN Land Conference, officially known as the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNCCD) 16th Conference of Parties, was nothing short of productive and eventful. As a UNCCD Land Hero for 2024 to 2026, I was privileged to speak on behalf of youth...
If you visit Villa Escudero today, that 800-hectare eco-tourism estate thriving in the lush greenery of Tiaong town in Quezon, you wouldn’t have known it once stood as a sugarcane farm that had developed into a self-sustaining coconut plantation. This was achieved through its hydroelectric plant...
The world’s nations keep faltering in their efforts to join together to save the planet from several environmental crises. In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change, plastic pollution, loss of global species and a growing number of deserts have either...
Leaders from diverse sectors were celebrated for their contributions to sustainable development and nation-building during the Nation Builders and MOSLIV Awards, held at the Grand Ballroom of Okada Manila. Organized by Sustainability Standards, Incorporated (SSI), the awards recognized individuals...
DBP President and Chief Executive Officer Michael O. de Jesus (third from left) accepts the Green Initiatives Award in recognition of the state-owned Bank's pioneering and enduring sustainability efforts. Also in photo are (from left): MORS Group president Dr. Shanggari Balakrishnan,...
Leading the way in sustainability, NEO's One/NEO (left photo) and Six/NEO (right photo) in BGC are both powered by 100 percent renewable energy for on-site use since 2013. Today, all seven of the real estate developer’s office buildings run on clean energy from AboitizPower's Cleanergy plants....
FILE - France and Argentina compete in the blind football gold medal match at the 2024 Paralympics, Sept. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File) PARIS (AP) — The Paris Olympics says it was far less polluting than recent Games but is not claiming to have been "carbon...
It’s no news that plastics harm the planet and its people, but we haven’t moved past this dialogue as they remain globally unmanaged and a grave threat to the environment. A sliver of hope was seen in March 2022 when 175 countries convened to develop the first treaty on plastic pollution...
As the cold holiday breeze whispers in December, the shopping frenzy that takes over malls will soon create piles of trash that stay for ages in landfills. This is aggravated by the lack of waste management schemes at the barangay level, especially after Christmas, when public trash bins look like...
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...
In a hopeful projection for 2030, the International Energy Agency predicts global renewable electricity generation will increase by 90 percent from 2023. Britain's last coal-fired power plant has also shut down, concluding 142 years of coal reliance that sparked the fossil-fuel-hungry Industrial...
