Damage to the country’s agriculture sector is now nearing P4 billion five days after Typhoon Odette left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR). In its latest update, the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DA-DRRM) Operation Center was already...
Odette, the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines in 2021, has dampened the Philippine government’s overall growth outlook for agriculture sector, which already lost over P3-billion worth due to the typhoon. "The growth outlook is dampened," said Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in a...
The Department of Finance (DOF) has called on organizations and other stakeholders promoting energy efficiency and conservation initiatives to revisit their current strategy of simply relying on fiscal incentives to implement their “green” projects. In a statement, Finance Secretary Carlos G....
Typhoon Odette, the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, had so far wiped out nearly P3 billion worth of agricultural production in the province, and the Department of Agriculture (DA) expects this to rise further in the next few days. As of Wednesday, the DA Regional Disaster Risk...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) expects further rise in losses and damage the agriculture sector sustained from Super Typhoon Odette – which now stood at more than half a billion pesos. The same observation was noted by Federation of Free Farmers Board Chairman Leonardo Montemayor, who said...
Editorial The effects of climate change couldn’t be more glaring as the country woke up with the ravages of Typhoon Odette. In some parts of Visayas and Mindanao, communication lines were cut, roads were destroyed, houses tumbled down like sandcastles. And again, calls for help resonated and...
As restrictions loosen up and the travel industry slowly recovers from the unprecedented effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are faced with another pressing crisis and that is the climate emergency. We are in the most decisive decade of human history—code red as science and environmental experts...
Less than seven months away from stepping down, President Duterte has accepted the defeat of his push to "federalize" the Philippines on Friday, Dec. 10 before an international audience. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte, in his intervention during the virtual Summit for...
Writing and reflecting on each Conference of the Parties (COP) since Paris has always been such an exercise of awareness. It is always a struggle of balancing personal frustrations and beliefs with how the process is going, while also recognizing the many complexities of multi-country negotiations...
Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) commended the proposal of the Department of Finance (DOF) for multilateral development banks (MDBs) to work together in incentivizing private capital flows for climate projects of developing countries. In a letter to Finance Secretary Carlos...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)- Science for Change (S4C) showcased Friday, Dec. 3, 37 innovation hubs that seek to boost regional development in the country. (DOST-Science for Change Facebook) The 37 innovation hubs set up in 17 regions were presented during the first Niche Centers...
The Philippine government on Thursday, Dec. 2, joined 10 other East Asian nations that pledged their support and commitment to invest in the "blue economy" or ocean governance and follow green recovery plans and programs as a roadmap for 2030 as a response to the threats of climate change....
