Climate Change

SYDNEY, Australia—Weather-related catastrophes brought about by climate change are increasing, the top UN humanitarian official said Sunday as he warned of the possibility of “mega-disasters.”

BUSINESSES should get behind the climate change issue, as measures to cut carbon emissions can be profitable too, former United States Vice-President Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr. said in a forum in Manila yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has received a combined $10.9 million in grant from multilateral lenders for the replacement of chillers in a bid to reduce the application of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HCFCs) as refrigerants. These chemical substances are known to cause ozone depletion and global warming.

MANILA, Philippines – The Climate Change Commission yesterday appealed to all government units as well as public-private partnerships to take part in conserving the numerous protected area networks across the country and help advance actions to effectively address global warming and climate change.

MANILA, Philippines – The El Niño phenomenon that dried up farmlands in most parts of Luzon has finally ended, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) announced yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Agriculture is setting up 84 units of automatic weather stations (AWS) and upgrading its 10 agro-meteorological (agromet) sites nationwide as part of the government’s sustained initiatives for the agriculture and fisheries sector to better adapt to climate change.

BERLIN (AP) – As another difficult round of climate talks approached, the United Nations urged rich countries Tuesday to live up to their promises of help for poor nations in the fight against global warming.

The Climate Change Commission (CCC) is battling for a macro-view management of river basins in the country, as it emphasized the need to strengthen preservation of watersheds, forest mangroves and river systems to combat climate change.

Rain welcomed me when I landed in Taoyuan Airport in Taiwan and the cool Baguio-like weather was a far cry from Manila’s scorching heat.  I am attending the BirdLife Asia Partnership meeting where, together with our NGO partners from Southeast and South Asia will be sharing lessons and discussing strategies that will help us make…

With the oil platform explosion that killed 11 workers now is spilling millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico as a sobering background, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told delegates to the 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference:

THE Climate Change Commission (CCC) recently forged ties with top ventilating, air-conditioning and refrigerating engineers in the country to promote “green infrastructure” by setting new standards on energy-efficient buildings and rating system to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emission and combat global warming.

This is to inform the general public that the Mining in Cantilan article that came out on April 11, 2010 was prepared with the intention of documenting the then ongoing protest action in Cantilan, Surigao del Sur led by Mayor Tomasa Guardo. The protest action which was participated in by local community members opposed mining…

MANILA, Philippines – The Climate Change Commission (CCC) yesterday urged young Filipinos to actively involve themselves in the global fight against climate change. In the Philippines, the CCC identifies the youth as one of the sectors vulnerable to climate change since they will be the future inhabitants of the planet.

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo approved on Wednesday a landmark policy that sets a 12-year action plan that would help the country be resilient and adapt to the deadly effects of climate change.

ASIDE from producing safe food products, organic agriculture can also help halt global warming. Dr. Rodel Maghirang of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños said organic agriculture is a production system that promotes health of soil, ecosystems and people.

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan, Philippines — President Macapagal-Arroyo signed Wednesday the National Framework on Climate Change, a complementary policy document to the newly enacted Climate Change Law (RA 9729), which provides the overarching policy directions on how the Philippines will cope with global warming and climate change.

So, what on earth did you do for Mother Earth on her special day last Thursday, April 22 (aside from wear green with your heart on your sleeve)? Earth Day may be over, but hey, it doesn’t mean we have to stop doing our bit for the earth and our fellow earthlings. Why not make…

ECHOING President Arroyo’s appeal for leaders of Southeast Asian nations to “speak with one voice” on the serious problem of climate change, the Philippine delegation attending the climate meetings called on their counterpart to now work together to build on common interest on the climate issue.

I-TEAM REPORT: THINK ISSUES (10th of a series) BOTOLAN, ZAMBALES— Ernesto Castillo never had it so good until Mt. Pinatubo erupted and forced him to face the inconvenient truth about the perils of climate change.

PARIS, France—Countries gather this week in the hope of erasing bitter memories of the Copenhagen summit and restoring faith in the battered UN process for combating climate change.

I was surprised why, at the ABS-CBN’s vice presidential debate, Senator Loren Legarda was being asked what was so important about climate change that she focused on it as her campaign thrust. Why not focus on the economy, on graft and corruption? It seems not too many people are aware of the consequences of environmental…

The government wants the grassroot community to get involved in drafting the national framework strategy that will help the country respond to adverse effects of climate change.

To this day, Bernarditas de Castro Muller says, she does not know exactly why she was taken out of the official Philippine delegation to the 15th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held last December in Copenhagen, Denmark.

MULTILATERAL and private institutions will be pledging billions of dollars to finance various initiatives of the Philippines to mitigate climate change, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Thursday.

THE PHILIPPINES MAY GET AS much as $2.5 billion in financial assistance from various institutions worldwide to fund environmental projects and programs.

MANILA, Philippines – Youth in three major universities explored what they can do to address climate change, something that experts in a knowledge-sharing forum in Silliman University in Dumaguete City say is already at Filipinos’ doorsteps.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite the National Economic and Development Authority’s (Neda) expectations that economic growth will be within targets, economists said the government still has to deal with a bigger problem—increasing poverty as a result of the difficult years from 2008 to 2010.

WITH almost one-half of the Filipino labor force engaged in agriculture farmers all over the country are facing the effects of El Niño or long dry spells. Farms are drying up due to climate change which can have a huge impact on the incomes of farmers.

Losses from ‘mild’ dry spell placed at P9B Potential losses of the agriculture sector from a prolonged dry spell are expected to increase in the coming months, according to the Department of Agriculture.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) announced Thursday it has developed a master plan for helping farmers counter the negative effects of dry spell brought on by El Niño on their crops.