After years of delays and half-powered commitments, the Philippine energy service company (ESCO) market is finally into high gear—helping energy-intensive businesses cut waste, boost efficiency, and usher them into the fast lane of green tech. And while at it, these energy efficiency frontrunners...
The stage is set for a new round of debates and negotiations on tackling the climate crisis – and the promise of host country Azerbaijan is for the process not succumbing to a fault-finding frenzy. While Azerbaijan’s hosting of the COP29 climate diplomacy summit came as a last-minute decision...
Out of 193 countries, the Philippines placed first on the World Risk Index list, making it the most disaster-prone nation for three years. Not long after a typhoon lands here, severe floods sweep through poor neighborhoods to wipe out homes and take lives. And while the bayanihan spirit in...
DUBAI, UAE – The Technology Executive Committee (TEC) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has set forth a challenge to the developing countries to employ solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in enforcing climate actions in their respective...
DUBAI, UAE – Negotiators of various countries and representations are prodded to take bolder actions so the ‘big switch’ on to achieving the 1.5 degrees C warming limit can successfully progress as an upshot of the COP28 Climate Change Summit. In a media stakeout, UN Climate Change Executive...
Bolder steps and accelerated actions are required to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 43% onward to 2030 so the world can keep pace with keeping global temperature rise within the 1.5 degrees Celsius target, being the holy grail of the Paris Agreement, according to a new report released by the...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. raised a question to the European Union (EU) amid discussions on the loss and damage compensation because of climate change: “Who do we go to? Who pays the bulk of it?” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during the ASEAN-EU Commemorative Summit in...
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...
Dear leader, As I write to you, leaders of all kinds are at Glasgow, oceans away in the United Kingdom for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. It’s dubbed as “the most important climate event of the century.” COP, for the readers, stands for the “Conference of the Parties.”...
The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) just gained the distinction of becoming the second local institution and one of 10 foreign ones accredited by the United Nations-backed Green Climate Fund (GCF) for climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives in developing countries. This allows the...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. on Friday spoke over the phone with United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John F. Kerry to discuss major initiatives to address the climate crisis. Foreign Affairs Sec. Teodoro Locsin, Jr. (left) and United States Special Presidential...
The call for sustainability must be an encompassing one. It is not only enough for eco organizations or passionate individuals to take up the cudgels for the environment, corporate entities must also, in their own way, make their operations and activities environment-friendly, too. It is in this...
