As genuine sustainability will eventually determine winners and losers across businesses and nations, the companies and organizations in the Philippines that have been leading the climate action via the Net Zero Carbon Alliance (NZCA) are targeting to institutionalize a science-based and credible...
The average person emits four tons of carbon dioxide annually, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research states, but certain high-profile individuals, notably those excessively using private jets, were said to emit a thousand times more. UK-based sustainability marketing agency Yard...
The Paris-headquartered International Energy Agency (IEA) indicated that while positive developments were attained at the COP28 Climate Change Summit, the commitments from more than 100 countries might still not be enough to put the world on track to the 1.5°C global warming limit cast in the...
A forbidding ‘moment of truth’ will confront the oil and gas industry at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) Climate Change Summit in Dubai, as this is the main sector being pressed for radical reduction in carbon emissions so it can keep pace with the 1.5 °C global temperature rise...
SINGAPORE – Multinational energy giant Shell is targeting to expand its nature-based solutions (NBS) proposition both to corporate-clients and individual customers that have been batting for carbon offset in their fuel usage. In an interview here, Shell Pilipinas Corporation Vice President for...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is planning to re-calibrate the country’s power mix by opting to retire coal-fired power facilities at the scale of 5,000 megawatts in the medium term. According to Michael Sinocruz, director of the DOE’s Energy Policy and Planning Bureau, that has been one of the...
Energy companies are calling on relevant government agencies to prevent "double counting" once carbon trading for renewable energy (RE) and other clean energy technologies are implemented in the country. “We just need to be careful about double counting because we shouldn’t double count,”...
PARIS, France -- Pressure to speed cuts in carbon pollution took a back seat at UN climate talks that ended late Thursday night, as emerging economies, including China, demanded that rich ones vastly scale up climate financing. The stand-off over 10 days of technical negotiations in Bonn stymied...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The US space agency NASA is teaming up with aviation giant Boeing to develop a next-generation commercial aircraft that emits less carbon. NASA, whose purview also includes aeronautical research, will invest $425 million over seven years in the "Sustainable Flight...
Globe Telecom Inc. currently employs over 7,400 green solutions to reduce carbon emissions across its network. Better yet, by 2030, it will upgrade its infrastructure and retrofit its industries to make them sustainable and slash CO2 emissions by 30 percent, the telco today (May 25) stated. “We...
