Makati City Mayor Abby Binay on Tuesday, Oct. 11, expressed her support for the use of climate-financing instruments which would give the city access to grants, loans, and funding opportunities to boost climate action as part of her administration's goal of improving Makati's climate change...
Sometime in the school year of 1993, in the first few months of my stint as an educator, I started to ride my newly gifted Diamond Back mountain bicycle from my rented place to the university where I found a new exciting career in teaching. Said university was a perfect and ideal location where my...
Makati City Mayor Abby Binay attended a climate change forum in Bonn, Germany on Thursday, Oct. 6, where she presented the city's initiatives to address climate emergency and its investments in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Binay was chosen as a speaker for Daring Cities 2022, a global...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The World Bank has pumped $14.8 billion into fossil fuel projects globally in the period following the landmark Paris climate accord, a report said Thursday. This picture taken on October 5, 2022 shows the lignite-fired power station operated by German energy giant RWE...
CHURCHILL, Canada -- Sprawled on rocky ground far from sea ice, a lone Canadian polar bear sits under a dazzling sun, his white fur utterly useless as camouflage. Polar bears observe a pod of beluga whales passing near the shoreline of the Hudson Bay near Churchill on August 9, 2022. Olivier MORIN...
Two of Metro Manila's most bike-friendly cities launched a bike ride on Sunday, Oct. 2, to boost climate change awareness and transition to 100 percent renewable energy through cycling. In a set of photos posted on his Facebook page, Pasig City Councilor Quin "Kin" Cruz said the bike ride, dubbed...
PARIS, France -- Climate change increased the rainfall from Hurricane Ian by more than 10 percent, according to a new quick-fire analysis, as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States devastated parts of Florida. In an aerial view, damaged buildings are seen as Hurricane Ian...
Makati City Mayor Abby Binay announced that the city has been proclaimed as the first-ever Resilience Hub in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia by the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Binay said that with this proclamation, Makati City will lead in the Making Cities Resilient 2030...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Switzerland's glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, shattering previous ice melt records, a report revealed Wednesday. This picture taken on September 2, 2022 above Ulrichen shows glaciologist and head of...
As Typhoon Karding battered the country with strong winds and heavy rains, other parts of the world also took a beating — Storm Fiona ravaged Canada’s east coast with terrifying winds, a Category 3 hurricane devastated Florida, while 64 percent of Europe experienced drought, something that...
EDITORS DESK We often read or hear about climate change. The topic, admittedly, is not “exciting” and would not even go viral online. A friend even told me that talking about climate change is too gloomy with all the negative forecasts and doomsday scenarios. I agree. But not talking about it...
While the Power for People Coalition agreed with President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s move in rallying nations to address climate crisis, the group called on the President to "make good" of his pronouncements in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). President Ferdinand 'Bongbong'...
