Grassroots zero-waste initiatives are fueling the sustainability movement in Asia Pacific as they help micro, small, and medium enterprises and consumers minimize plastic pollution and shift to sustainable alternatives.
The Philippines’ foremost energy experts and energy finance analysts vouched for the capacity of renewable energy sources to fully supply the country’s energy needs in the future, noting that there are enough technologies, software, and strategies to address the issues of intermittency and variability.
The neighboring Southeast Asian countries of the Philippines and Indonesia have a lot in common. Both are home to numerous indigenous peoples, the guardians of global biodiversity.
The Youth Cluster of The Climate Reality Project Philippines supports a faster pace of vaccination in our country, ensuring that every Filipino has fair access to safe and effective vaccines. As the Philippines and majority of the world continue to suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic, this key solution must be a priority. Building a centralized mega-vaccination facility, however, will not achieve this.
Climate and environmental advocates pushing for systemic changes to address the country’s plastic pollution problem expressed support and reservations about House Bill No. 9147 or the Single-Use Plastics Regulation Bill which was approved by the Committee on Ecology of the House of Representatives last March.
Climate Reality Leaders working on the development and deployment of energy in the country have expressed support to the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) plan to stop funding any coal-related projects and decommission coal-fired power plants in the Asia Pacific Region.
