Rooting on Paris accord, PMCJ wants ‘concrete, stronger’ policy actions from gov’t

While it lauded Philippine President Duterte for signing the Paris Agreement, the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice said on Tuesday that it wanted more “concrete and stronger policy actions” from government to address the country’s goal to be independent from using coal.

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Read more about the article ?Elderly ?forest guard walks 35 km to call for Gina Lopez’s confirmation
SENIOR SUPPORTER. 70-year-old forest guard Ric Obenza walked 35 kilometers from Calinan district to Roxas Avenue on Wednesday March 1 to join the call to support the appointment of Gina Lopez as environment secretary. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

?Elderly ?forest guard walks 35 km to call for Gina Lopez’s confirmation

70-year old Ric Obenza ?said Secretary Gina Lopez ?"?needs to continue what she started because the closure of mining companies? ?should have happened a long time ago?."

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Read more about the article Davao ?City to house Phivolcs ‘mirror station’ should the ‘Big One’ hit
Engr Jamila Deocampo, head of the Davao Seismic Station based in the Philippine Science High School campus in Mintal. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Davao ?City to house Phivolcs ‘mirror station’ should the ‘Big One’ hit

This city would host a "mirror station" of the data collected by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology? (Phivolcs), a decentralization plan of the agency operation and to protect the data should the central office be destroyed by a severe earthquake.

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Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com file photo)

Militants back DENR exec over scrapping of mine deals  

Progressive organizations expressed their support to Environment Secretary Gina Lopez as the 75 mining deals posed a threat to the watersheds across the country.

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