The Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) gives the Filipino people a potent weapon against the volatility of fossil fuel costs and unreliability of coal-fired power plants exemplified by recent power outages.
In this article for our Manila Bulletin column Eleventh Hour, Climate Reality Leader and Energy SubCluster Coordinator JM Dumdum painted a picture of what the future holds if global warming would go beyond the average of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Banco de Oro (BDO) Capital and Investment Corporation and the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) today called for the shift of financial flows towards the 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming threshold of the Paris Agreement in order to address climate and energy transition risks and increase resilience. They also stressed the critical need to address challenges in financing renewable energy projects, as raised by Department of Energy Undersecretary Felix William Fuentebella.
The pursuit of the energy sector targets under the Philippines’ Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) should result in improved energy security and reliability, energy access, and affordability of energy products and services.
This year’s observance of International Youth Day aims to highlight the crucial role of the youth in transforming food systems for human and planetary health.
In line with this and for this month’s Realitalk, we reached out to our very own Youth Cluster Coordinators (Dani Madriaga, Keith Ancheta, Ivana Joaquin, Justin Federigan, Ruzzel Morales, and Bea Dolores) to talk about the current state of the country’s food systems and the many ways the youth are contributing to effectively address food insecurity amid the pandemic, rapidly declining ecosystems, and the prevailing climate emergency.
In this article for our Manila Bulletin column Eleventh Hour, Climate Reality Leader and Youth Coordinator Dani Madriaga reminded us how gravely our society has failed the youth.
In celebration of #InternationalYouthDay, she also discussed how that the youth, with a resolve that’s unshakeable even in times when hope is dim, are refusing to sit idly by and give up.
