President Marcos has signed into law a measure that will provide the government an accounting of the country's natural resources. (Noel B. Pabalate; document courtesy of Malacañang) The Republic Act No. 11995 or the Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System (PENCAS) law,...
The Senate on Wednesday, November 22 approved on third and final reading the bill that seeks to establish the proposed Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System (PENCAS) law. At least 23 senators in favor of Senate Bill No. 2439, with zero negative votes and zero...
Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda has urged the Senate to expedite the passage into law of the proposed Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting Systems (PENCAS) Act to help guide the government integrate environmental inputs and outputs into national income accounts to help the...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim In the last three decades, we have seen game-changing technology breakthroughs happening one after the other. The internet has ushered us into the Third Industrial Revolution (IR) and continues to be the basic platform for almost everything that we do today as we enter...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) through its social development arm—BPI Foundation—continues to boost the Philippine social enterprise ecosystem by helping empower social enterprises (SEs) through its program, BPI Sinag. Social enterprises are viable businesses...
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a bill seeking to develop and implement an ecosystem and natural capital accounting system that applies to the Philippine environment, giving importance to the role, value, and impact of the country’s natural resources on the economy. “For decades, the debate has...
Bukidnon 1st District Representative Maria Lourdes Acosta-Alba has sought passage of a bill that seeks to coordinate and ensure the sustainable development of coastal and marine resources of the Philippines. Acosta-Alba has filed House Bill No. 3136 or "An Act adopting Integrated Coastal Ecosystem...
More than 200 researchers from Philippine public universities and natural resource managers were trained by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on how to properly track the changes in value and contribution of natural resources to the country's economy. ECOSYSTEM...
The Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has extended until Wednesday, Oct. 13 the deadline for submission of proposals for its Higher Education Institution Readiness for Innovation and...
To advocate maritime and archipelagic awareness, the Department of Education (DepEd) launched the “MANA Mo” webinar series. (Photo from DepEd) As part of the Maritime and Archipelagic Nation Awareness Month (MANA Mo), the webinar series aims to to raise awareness of the country’s maritime...
The Philippine startup ecosystem is on the rise, as the country's ranking jumped to 53rd across the globe in 2020, advancing by 17 positions from its rank in 2017 with a large majority confident of revenue growth, according to a venture capital ecosystem study. The Philippine Venture Capital...
Artificial beaches have a purpose—and here are others from all over the world BEACH IN THE CITY The baywalk on Manila Bay after its rehabilitation last year. Photo by Lost Juan Manila Bay beach, why not? It’s not a new idea. In 2002, the French capital introduced the idea of the “Paris...
