Jakarta : The Asia-Pacific region must continue to grow economically to lift millions of people out of poverty, but it must also respond to climate change to survive, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report released Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Asia-Pacific must respond to climate change to survive: UNDP
May 10, 2012
ADB sounds alarm on climate change
May 4, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – Time is running out on the fast-growing Asian region to step up and help prevent catastrophic climate change, foreign experts said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Business risks and climate change: New iteration
January 1, 2012
WE can’t spend the next 40 years repairing damage. There must be a way to avoid the repeated loss of lives, and sidestep annual economic dislocations.
Over the last year, WWF and BPI Foundation studied four Philippine cities—Baguio, Cebu, Iloilo and Davao. Our objective was to take adaptation thinking to the next level and better understand what economic risks and opportunities lay in store for each city in a climate-defined future. Read the rest of this entry »
Building resilience and adaptation
January 1, 2012
PHILIPPINE climate-change Imperative
The sooner we realize that disasters are never natural but always a product of hazard and history, that a people’s vulnerability is not a given of place but derivative from the past, the better we are likely to understand what fate might await us in a world of changing climate. Read the rest of this entry »
Deadly climate change
December 20, 2011
A strong typhoon can be deadly even to the best prepared, what more to those who least expect it? Tropical Storm Sendong, which has now killed more than 650 people in northern Mindanao, only proves this. Read the rest of this entry »
Sustained poverty or sustainable development? (First of Two Parts)
December 17, 2011
Empowering the Filipino People
“To achieve the Millennium Development Goals and keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius, all countries must ACT NOW.” — UN SecGen Ban Ki-Moon, 01 November 2011 Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change to worsen food crises, warns Oxfam
November 29, 2011
DURBAN, South Africa: Storms and droughts that have unleashed dangerous surges in food prices could be a “grim foretaste” of what lies ahead when climate change bites more deeply, Oxfam said on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
New hope on global warming
November 27, 2011
Developing countries that can’t afford traditional CO2 mitigation measures can now embrace black-carbon reduction
In 1997, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Kyoto Protocol _ an agreement among signatory states to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Next year, however, the Clean Development Mechanism, a system of carbon credits in which each credit represents a country’s right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2), is set to expire. While policymakers struggle to extend it, carbon-finance specialists are seeking market-driven alternatives. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change action plan approved
November 23, 2011
PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. C. Aquino III has approved a comprehensive plan to address the impact of climate change that will be submitted to a United Nations forum by the end of the month in a bid to access global aid, an official said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Weather extremes to devastate Philippines
November 22, 2011
LEGAZPI CITY: Ten years from now, the Philippines’ climate shall have gone from bad to worse which imperil food security, livelihood, infrastructures, peoples’ lives and limbs as the adverse impact of global warming has reached the tipping point according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical and Services Administration (PAGASA) officials here. Read the rest of this entry »
