By Carissa Alcantara Aside from playing notable characters on the screen, celebrities create a huge impact by using their platforms to raise awareness in saving and protecting Mother Earth. Besides appearing on the red carpet, posing with expensive cars, or holding unending parties, some...
Leading clean energy firm First Gen Corporation has partnered with the Climate Change Commission (CCC) to help local government units (LGUs) on climate change adaptation, particularly in executing mitigation plans and strategies to abate the planet’s warming. The memorandum of agreement (MOA) was...
Meralco’s eSakay: Gradually melting the 'ICE' with EVs By MYRNA M. VELASCO Within this month, the planet’s warming temperatures will be in the spotlight again – as global economic and political leaders, scientists as well as the other alpha geeks of ‘climate change diplomacy’ will gather...
Leading renewable energy firm Energy Development Corporation (EDC) has extended for another two years its power supply agreement with Silliman University, an academic institution in the Visayas which has been championing the utilization of green technology for its energy needs. For this power...
By Winfried Scheewe Severe weather events triggered by climate change such as drought are expected to increasingly affect coconut production. As explained in the articles Coconut farms and climate change: what is at stake and what can be done? , and Coconut palms under climate stress , the...
Ayala-led energy firm ACEN Corporation has switched on its 40-megawatt Alaminos hybrid energy storage facility in Laguna, positioned as a support technology for its solar-generated power capacity that will be delivered to off-takers. The facility is touted as the first hybrid solar and energy...
Globe accelerates RE adoption By MYRNA M. VELASCO Telecommunication giant Globe is scaling up the integration of renewable energy (RE) across the chain of operations, in a bid to have a clean and green source of power supply for its facilities. Just recently, the company announced that it took...
Ayala-led ACEN Corporation is fast tracking the completion of its 60-megawatt Lac Hoa and Hoa Dong wind farm project in Vietnam with targeted commercial operation in the first quarter of this year. According to the Ayala firm, the project is its partnership with UPC Renewables “and will feature...
The Department of Energy (DOE), in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will study the use of "insurance mechanism" in climate-proofing the country’s energy infrastructure facilities. According to Energy Undersecretary Felix William B. Fuentebella,...
Lopez-led INAEC Aviation Corporation emerges as the pioneer general aviation operator in the Philippines that had formally submitted ‘net zero’ commitment via the “Climate Neutral Now Pledge” of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. INAEC Aviation Corporation With the...
The Department of Energy (DoE) has categorically countered the planned buy-out and phaseout or retirement of coal-fired power plants in Mindanao, specifying that this is not part of a scenario set in the Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) in the next two decades. “The PEP is not yet looking at...
Since the 1950s, approximately eight billion tons of plastic have been produced and more than 300 million tons are made each year. Throughout the years, the environment has been facing the plastic crisis and the mainstream solution for decades has been recycling. But only 10 percent of all the...
