Environment

PH calls for collaboration to enhance climate change adaptation

PH calls for collaboration to enhance climate change adaptation

March 17, 2024, 7:54 pm

BONN, Germany – Representing developing nations, the Philippines underscored the importance of collaboration, planning, financing, and strategic communication to enhance climate change adaptation action and support. The Adaptation Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate… Read More

Europe not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks - EU report

Europe not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks - EU report

March 12, 2024, 6:54 pm

LONDON – Climate risks have already reached critical levels and could become "catastrophic" for Europe without urgent action, according to the European Environment Agency. In its first-ever European Climate Risk Assessment, the agency warned that Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the… Read More

QBE gives Million Trees Foundation P3.7M; breaks ground on green park

QBE gives Million Trees Foundation P3.7M; breaks ground on green park

March 12, 2024, 4:50 pm

MANILA – The Million Trees Foundation, Inc. (MTFI) has received a major boost with the entry of a new institutional partner, QBE Insurance Group, which has allotted PHP3.7 million for various projects of the organization. The event was highlighted by the groundbreaking of the QBE Green SanQtuary… Read More

Climate change body boosts policy-making partnership with academe

Climate change body boosts policy-making partnership with academe

March 8, 2024, 7:23 pm

MANILA – The Climate Change Commission (CCC) is working on a collaboration project with research centers in the academe to help formulate policies to address environmental concerns. In an interview, Secretary Robert Borje, the CCC’s vice chairperson and executive director, said in a forum at… Read More

QC police camp turns 'green' to back environmental conservation push

QC police camp turns 'green' to back environmental conservation push

March 5, 2024, 9:50 pm

MANILA – Camp Karingal, the headquarters of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), has been named as the first "green camp" of the police force. In a press briefing on Tuesday, QCPD director Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan said the "Project Green Camp Karingal" is in line with the national and local… Read More

Norway, ASEAN cooperate in reducing marine plastic pollution

Norway, ASEAN cooperate in reducing marine plastic pollution

March 5, 2024, 8:10 pm

JAKARTA – The Government of Norway launched on March 4 the ASEAN-Norway Cooperation Project on Local Capacity Building for Reducing Plastic Pollution in the ASEAN Region (ASEANO) Phase 2 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. “We need to work at different levels, international and regional, as well as… Read More

Waste-to-energy project to address Iloilo City’s garbage, water woes

Waste-to-energy project to address Iloilo City’s garbage, water woes

March 5, 2024, 7:36 pm

ILOILO CITY – The city government is banking on a new waste-to-energy project through a public-private partnership to help address its concerns on waste management and water scarcity. In a media interview on Tuesday, Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas expressed optimism over the state-of-the-art… Read More

Manila to host Earth Hour 2024, calls for residents' participation

Manila to host Earth Hour 2024, calls for residents' participation

March 5, 2024, 7:27 pm

MANILA – The Manila City government is encouraging residents to participate in this year's Earth Hour to be hosted by the city.Mayor Honey Lacuna led the event's launch on Tuesday at the Bulwagang Villegas inside the Manila City Hall, which was also attended by representatives from World Wide… Read More

Senator to provide disaster resilience scholarships with CCC, AIM

Senator to provide disaster resilience scholarships with CCC, AIM

March 4, 2024, 12:42 pm

MANILA – The office of Senator Loren Legarda has forged a partnership with the Climate Change Commission (CCC) and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) to grant full scholarship to candidates for Executive Master in Disaster Risk and Crisis Management (EMDRCM) program. The Sustainable… Read More

CCC, UP boost ties to advance climate governance

CCC, UP boost ties to advance climate governance

March 3, 2024, 5:46 pm

MANILA – The Climate Change Commission (CCC) and the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG) reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen collaborative efforts, aimed at advancing climate governance and good governance initiatives in the… Read More

Climate change, global warming pose serious challenges to tourism

Climate change, global warming pose serious challenges to tourism

February 27, 2024, 8:40 pm

ISTANBUL – Climate change and global warming are posing significant challenges to world-renowned tourism destinations, threatening their ecosystems and infrastructure. Due to the impacts of climate change on the tourism sector, various challenges are emerging for globally renowned tourism… Read More

CCC: Brace against effects of El Niño

CCC: Brace against effects of El Niño

February 23, 2024, 9:24 pm

MANILA – The Climate Change Commission (CCC) urged Filipinos to take proactive measures following the forecast of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration’s (PAGASA) of an increased El Niño activity. PAGASA has warned of a strong El Niño activity this… Read More

Serpent eagle rescued in Bulacan town

Serpent eagle rescued in Bulacan town

February 20, 2024, 5:15 pm

CITY OF MALOLOS – The Bulacan Environment and Natural Resources Office (BENRO) turned over Tuesday a rescued brown serpent eagle to the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Guiguinto town. In an interview, Katrina Anne Bernardo-Balingit, Provincial Public Affairs Office chief,… Read More

'Avoidance and prudence’ key to eliminating plastic pollution: expert

'Avoidance and prudence’ key to eliminating plastic pollution: expert

February 19, 2024, 2:51 pm

ANKARA – The principle of "avoidance and prudence” should be the motto for both individuals and states on using plastics in all aspects of life, according to a concerned academic. Sedat Gundogdu, a marine biologist at Cukurova University in the southern Turkish city of Adana, told Anadolu that… Read More

Dagupan City, Holcim partner to address garbage problem

Dagupan City, Holcim partner to address garbage problem

February 15, 2024, 8:02 pm

DAGUPAN CITY – The local government here has teamed up with Holcim Philippines to address the city’s solid waste management problem by turning wastes into energy through cement kiln co-processing. Mayor Belen Fernandez, in an interview on Thursday, said the building materials company will… Read More

Legazpi residents plant over 3K trees to mark Valentine's Day

Legazpi residents plant over 3K trees to mark Valentine's Day

February 14, 2024, 5:34 pm

LEGAZPI CITY – Residents of this city, including employees of the city government and national government agencies, barangay officials and members of non-government organizations, planted at least 3,100 trees in celebration of Valentine's Day on Wednesday. More than 1,000 individuals joined the… Read More

Batangas town taps modern technology to make fertilizers

Batangas town taps modern technology to make fertilizers

February 12, 2024, 8:37 pm

PADRE GARCIA, Batangas – The municipal government here has put recycling at the heart of its solid waste management program and is leveraging modern technology to make discarded items useful again. In an interview on Monday, Rouel Kasilag, Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Officer,… Read More

150K seedlings planted in 2023 under Pangasinan's greening program 

150K seedlings planted in 2023 under Pangasinan's greening program 

February 11, 2024, 6:19 pm

BUGALLON, Pangasinan – The provincial government of Pangasinan, with the support of local government units and other stakeholders, planted 149,964 seedlings from Feb. 1 to Dec. 31, 2023 under its Green Canopy Project. The project aimed at reforesting denuded mountains and arid lands through… Read More

Protection of wetlands occupying only 6% of earth’s surface pushed

Protection of wetlands occupying only 6% of earth’s surface pushed

February 5, 2024, 9:07 pm

MANILA – Senator Cynthia Villar on Monday called for preservation of the country’s wetlands, saying these only occupied 6 percent of the earth’s surface. Villar said wetlands play a major role in environment protection as these perform crucial functions like freshwater supply, habitat… Read More

Joint LGUs-gov't agencies effort to fix water, waste woes

Joint LGUs-gov't agencies effort to fix water, waste woes

January 28, 2024, 12:55 pm

MANILA – An active collaboration between local government units (LGUs) and national government agencies will help abate and eventually stop the growing problem of waste management and water security. A media release issued on Sunday said Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)… Read More