The election of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. as president poses real questions to the future of democracy and climate action in the Philippines, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations. We wrote about what is at stake in the next six years and how we intend to navigate this new era of Philippine democracy.
There are many factors that could influence energy transition in the country but leveling the playing field for all types of technology will ultimately tip the scale toward renewable energy. This was pointed out by Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Paula Valencia in her article for our column Eleventh Hour at the Manila Bulletin this week.
In this #EarthDay2022 special of #RealiTalk, Philline reminds us why the time is right for renewable energy transition in the Philippines and how the transition could provide affordable, reliable, and secure energy to the Filipino people, especially to Mindanaoans.
The Department of Energy (DOE) is taking the right steps toward achieving energy security and affordability in the country. This was the reaction of The Climate Reality Project Philippines to the recent pronouncement of the DOE that it will issue in the third quarter of this year a new policy declaring all renewable energy (RE) plants as preferential dispatch units in the wholesale electricity spot market (WESM).
In our column ‘Eleventh Hour’ this week, Pinoy Climate Reality Leaders Laurice Aquino and Kristine Galang asked, “Can the next set of leaders address the need to embed climate action and sustainability in our national and local economic development plans?”
The next set of leaders must put an end to policies that favor fossil fuel companies, specifically provisions that allow them to pass the higher costs on to the Filipino people. This was reiterated by Ms. Nazrin Castro, Philippines Branch Manager of The Climate Reality Project, during the briefing organized by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) entitled “Looming Elections and Power Outages: Advancing affordable, reliable, and secure energy in the next administration.”
