Climate Change

Developing countries, including those in East Asia and the Pacific, are expected to bear 75 to 80 percent of the costs of damage caused by changing climate YOU many not have heard the term before but being “climate smart” is the way forward for the Philippines and other countries in the Asean and Pacific Region,…

MANILA, Philippines – The newly formed Climate Change Commission is proposing a P2-billion budget this year, the same amount originally allocated to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for reforestation.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY , Philippines  — Only one-eighth of the earth’s surface will remain as dry land by 2020, unless governments worldwide succeeded in bringing down greenhouse gas emissions to 2 degrees Celsius by 2017, an environment science professor at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños said.

The Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Working Group (WG) on Climate Change and Development, a coalition of over 30 organizations working on climate change-related issues, calls on President Gloria Arroyo to take a long and careful look at the Copenhagen Accord and firmly resist being rushed into committing the Philippines to the highly controversial and widely-criticized…

MANILA, Philippines—A coalition of environmental groups has called on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to conduct a thorough review of the Copenhagen Accord, a widely criticized agreement crafted on the final day of the climate talks as the meeting faced collapse in December.

PARIS, France—Pollution from Asia is boosting levels of ozone in the skies above the western United States, a trend that could hamper US efforts to meet tougher smog standards, experts said on Wednesday.

07 October 2009 –In two-separate meetings, TUCP Vice President Alejandro C. Villaviza, TUCP Party-List Representative Raymond Mendoza, and TUCP Officers handed over the World Day for Decent Work Call to Action for Decent Work, Decent Life! to DOLE Secretary Marianito Roque and PEZA Director General Lilia de Lima. The WDDW Call to Action highlights eight…

Coming from cold and snowy Copenhagen and braving the snowstorm and delayed trains, we are sad to report that the so-called Copenhagen Accord leaves us with business as usual and no legally binding commitment to reduce emissions in the world. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized the process of passing the accord as undemocratic. The Bolivarian…

From Ondoy to Pepeng and every typhoon in between, this has been one of the worst years for the Philippines in terms of natural disasters. As a matter of fact, we are frequently ranked among the top, if not the top, most natural disaster prone country in the world. According to the latest Global Report…

MANILA, Philippines – Climate change is the biggest factor in the forced displacement of people as global warming is blurring the traditional distinction between refugees and migrants, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

HSBC: Investors scouting for low-carbon ventures MANILA, Philippines—Asia-Pacific nations reported better results than the United States when it came to providing goods, products and services that helped in easing the impact of climate change, according to a financial metric pioneered by British banking giant HSBC.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Barack Obama said that disenchantment over the Copenhagen climate talks was “justified” but defended the chaotic outcome as the top UN envoy urged an end to post-summit recriminations. The climate change conference held in the Danish capital ended last week with a nonbinding agreement that the European Union has blasted as a…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Agriculture fears the loss of up to P40 billion worth of palay or paddy rice and up to P16.4 billion worth of corn next year due to the El Niño phenomenon.

The summit failed to deliver a way to halt dangerous climate change About 45,000 travelled to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen – the vast majority convinced of the need for a new global agreement on climate change.

PROMETHEUS BOUND The climate negotiation in the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen has come to a sour end. The world’s high expectation for a meaningful and binding agreement is doused with icy cold water by a nonbinding deal dubbed as “Copenhagen Accord”—a deal primarily brokered by the most powerful and leading polluter…

MANILA, Philippines – The Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan, is leading the way in providing goods, products and services focused on tackling climate change, according to the latest findings from the HSBC Climate Change Index.

COPENHAGEN—Despite all-night efforts for two weeks by delegates to hammer out a global deal, which brought together 110 world leaders, the summit ended on Saturday with a political agreement and a loose commitment to develop the details over the next 12 months.

A US-led initiative called the Copenhagen Accord has formed the centre-piece of a deal at UN climate talks in Copenhagen, despite some countries’ opposition. Below is an explanation of the main points in the agreement.

The climate negotiation in the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen has come to a sour end. The world’s high expectation for a meaningful and binding agreement is doused with icy cold water by a non-binding deal dubbed as “Copenhagen Accord” – a deal primarily brokered by the most powerful and leading polluter…

Asian giants China and Indonesia have hailed the Copenhagen UN climate summit outcome, despite its cool reception from aid agencies and campaigners.

COPENHAGEN: US President Barack Obama on Friday (Saturday morning, Manila time) announced a climate deal with other major world leaders calling it “unprecedented” and “meaningful” but admitted it was still not enough to beat global warming.

COPENHAGEN (AFP) – A UN climate summit Saturday rammed through a battle plan against global warming forged by US President Barack Obama and other top leaders, sidelining smaller states which lashed the deal as betrayal.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday said world parliamentarians were correct in their declaration that the post-2012 agreement on climate change should be underpinned by domestic legislation in all countries to be effective.

COPENHAGEN—A weak UN climate deal, agreed on Saturday after two weeks of talks pulled back from near collapse, underscored the vulnerability of a process depending on consensus and may mark a diminishing UN role.

We leave behind 2009 thankful that the global financial crisis that rocked the world’s strongest economies in 2008 had been kinder to our island community of 92 million Filipinos.

COPENHAGEN – A major bloc of developing nations on Saturday called a draft climate deal in Copenhagen the “worst in history” and hinted it may try to block it.

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile supported yesterday the Debt for Climate Change Adaptation Swap, in which portions of the country’s payments for foreign debts will be used instead for reconstruction and climate adaptation measures.

COPENHAGEN — The hour of truth loomed on Thursday at the UN climate talks where countries had to draw a line under procedural squabbles to nail down a deal ahead of one of the largest gatherings of world leaders in history.

COPENHAGEN—If they fail to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen, world leaders flying in their private jets and huddling in five-star hotels will have little to show for their efforts beyond a big, fat carbon footprint.

COPENHAGEN—The Philippine proposal for a “deep and early cut” in global carbon emissions has gained momentum here at the United Nations climate change summit, where some 115 heads of state will gather on Thursday in a bid to seal a crucial legally-binding deal to combat global warming.