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People-centered Transport as climate action: SEA transport planners, advocates #MoveTogether for low-carbon and sustainable mobility

Last May 21-23, The Climate Reality Project Philippines, in partnership with the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), gathered transport planners and representatives across Asia to discuss best practices and pertinent issues surrounding sustainable mobility in the region.

Entitled, #MOVETOGETHER: Regional Exchange and Workshop on Sustainable Urban Mobility and Placemaking in Southeast Asia, the event was supported by the Clean Mobility Collective Southeast Asia (CMC SEA), TRANSCEND (Transformative Actions for Climate and Ecological Protection and Development) Project, and the Local Government of Antipolo City.

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In a chokehold: how fossil fuel dependence suffocates the Philippine transport system amidst oil price shocks

Iran is approximately 7000 kilometers away from the Philippines. But an ongoing war in that part of the world rattles ours almost immediately.

This conflict in West Asia (or Middle East to the Western world) has disrupted crude oil shipments to the Philippines, a country that imports about 98% of it to power almost everything from commerce to agriculture. A lower supply of crude oil spells oil and gas spikes across the board.

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GEOP amendments help hospitals power “care” with renewable energy

As their first steps into the profession, doctors recite the Hippocratic Oath as a reminder of the ethical principles that guide their practice. Calling upon various Greek gods, new physicians swear to “abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm.”

Yet today, the healthcare sector faces a profound ethical contradiction. According to a report by Health Care Without Harm, in collaboration with Arup, healthcare is responsible for 4.4% of global net greenhouse gas emissions, or roughly 2 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

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Putting RE in Resilience: how the Green Energy Option Program can help VisMin tackle energy woes, climate risk

The Climate Reality Project Philippines, in partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), recently held the second leg of Choosing Renewables: Information Campaign on the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) and other Voluntary Renewable Energy Mechanisms in Tagbilaran, Bohol.

Participants included local power distribution utility companies, government officials, and business owners, whose interest in renewable energy (RE) was evident during the series of talks.

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