MANILA ? Greenpeace, EcoWaste Coalition, and Kaisampalad
today announced the results of their 2007 Green Electoral Initiative
(GEI) in a press conference in Quezon City. The GEI, launched last March
5, assessed the ?greenness? of senatorial aspirants based on their
stance and track record on key environmental issues.
Sounds red alert over lack of environmental awareness among electoral candidates
MANILA — Environmental activists, people’s organizations, and progressive partylists today launched an Earth Day 2007 People’s Caravan from Quezon City to Manila, aiming to generate more public awareness of pressing environmental and people’s issues at stake in the 2007 national elections.
MANILA — Philippine Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Hilario G. Davide, Jr. reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that on 17 April 2007 the Philippines joined the mounting clamor for greater international attention on energy security and climate change, saying member-states of the United Nations must work together to attain the much needed consensus for speedy cooperation and action on these issues.
?There is an extreme urgency for international community-wide prioritization, including at regional and national levels, to address the challenges posed by energy security and climate change,? Ambassador Davide said in his statement during an open debate of the Security Council.
MANILA — Environmental activist group Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) today warned that the recent incidents of extreme heat and Napocor power shortages affecting Luzon were just the beginning of more climate change-related phenomena that would affect the Filipino poor the most.
Temperatures recently hit 36.8 degrees Centigrade, which PAGASA recorded the hottest temperatures in the Philippines for this year and which triggered scattered brownouts due to the sudden surge in power demands. The weather forecasting agency also warned that extreme heat spells would persist until next month.
Manila, 18 April 2007?Greenpeace activists today constructed a
four-meter replica of a (smoke-spewing) coal plant at the main entrance
of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila.
The Bank has been under heavy criticism for its extensive funding of
fossil fuel projects in Asia which have massively contributed to the
region’s greenhouse gas emissions and abetted dangerous climate change.
The protest came two weeks ahead of the Bank’s Annual Governors Meeting
in Kyoto, birthplace of the Kyoto Protocol, the only legally-binging
global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.