Last April 15, Thursday, the Philippines submitted its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This initiative was welcomed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) but with a reminder to the government that they need to “act...
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) said watershed is the “lifeline” of the country’s water supply system, but the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) admitted there isn’t enough government budget to even set up a watershed management information system....
Who says business giants and civil society groups can't see eye to eye when it comes to environmental concerns and sustainability goals? ON THE SAME PAGE--Environmental advocates from civil society and business groups called for stronger partnerships with the private sector and government to...
Despite EO 130 The mining sector will remain under scrutiny despite President Rodrigo Duterte's recent decision to lift the moratorium on new mining operations, a top government official said. As a start, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said the government is considering imposing more...
This year’s Earth Day celebration is marked by the Philippines’ first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), approved by President Duterte, which sets a 75-percent greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and avoidance by 2030, to fulfill the country’s commitment to the Paris Agreement on Climate...
On condition for a reduced tariff rate proposal, the Clark Development Corporation (CDC) has finally agreed to give Clark Water Corporation (CWC) the notice to proceed with its compliance action plan (CAP). This, after the CWC, a subsidiary of Manila Water Company, Inc., agreed to CDC’s...
The Office of the President (OP) was urged to cancel the ‘stay order’ issued on mining companies with pending suspension and closure orders. This as such move will not do anything for the Philippine economy. “We demand that the Office of the President immediately cancels this ‘Stay...
The Philippine government has allowed the mining companies that were suspended and ordered closed by former Environment Secretary and late Regina Paz Lopez in 2017 to continue operating. Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Director Wilfredo Moncano said on Tuesday that the government has decided to...
To date, approximately five percent of the world’s oceans have been explored, leaving 95 percent more to be discovered. But despite this small portion, scientists have already made remarkable discoveries, particularly in the species that inhabit the seas. One notable discovery is the “E.T....
It is dubbed as the “plastic water bottle” of the pandemic. Those face masks, a “must” these days, are set to become the looming environment crisis that we would face. Though light as a feather (at least four grams each), millions of face masks are discarded each day, some even thrown on...
Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, are the most diverse group of land plants whose oldest fossils are discovered to be 135 million years old. Many researchers believe that this is when the group originated. The fossils available today suggest that flowering plants evolved and became...
The Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) has clarified that it was not anti-environment and was not endorsing deforestation. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DOST-FPRDI Director Romulo T. Aggangan lamented that because of its name, the...
