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Policy Brief: Southeast Asia’s struggle against the plastic waste trade
Executive Summary As leaders from the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepare to meet in Bangkok for the 34th ASEAN Summit this June,…
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Community Rights Advocates Challenge to ASEAN Leaders: End the Toxic Trade in Plastics and E-Waste
Bangkok, Thailand — As the 34th ASEAN Summit gets underway, chaired by Thailand under the theme of “Advancing Partnership for Sustainability,” community rights advocates from Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand are uniting…
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Chemical fertilizer use linked to climate change
The use of chemical fertilizers is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and contributes greatly to climate change, Greenpeace said today during the Philippine launch of the report Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential.
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Fisheries stakeholders on the effective implementation of RA 10654
We, the members of conservation and fisheries NGOs, and fisherfolk organizations laud the passage of RA 1065, which amended the Philippine Fisheries Code, and its Implementing Rules and Regulations of the amended Fisheries Code of the Philippines, at a time when we urgently needed to revive the nation’s seas.
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World Water Day: Breaking the wasteful habit
This morning, as soon as I woke up, I used and flushed a toilet, took a bath, brushed my teeth – all with water running inside the house. I feel good and blessed that there is abundant supply of water at home, but eventually thought of people from other parts of the world with no…
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LTO issues new orange plates to E-Jeepneys
Electric Jeepneys, the cleaner, safer, alternative to fossil fuel-based transport, today become the first vehicles in the country to be issued orange license plates for electric vehicles by the Land Transportation Office.
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Fisherfolk groups to President Aquino: Save Philippine fisheries, adopt Roadmap to Recovery
Manila, Philippines, 30 May 2014 – On the eve of National Fisherfolk’s Day, close to 1,000 people from fisherfolk groups, civil society and non-government organizations marched to Malacañang in festive sea creature costumes to deliver their proposed Roadmap to Recovery for Philippine Oceans to address the declining state of our national seas. They urged the…
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Drinking water in Philippines, Thailand contaminated with nitrates, Greenpeace says
Water in key agricultural areas in the Philippines and Thailand are already contaminated with nitrate pollution, Greenpeace warned today at the launch of a new report, Nitrates in drinking water in the Philippines and Thailand. The report, launched simultaneously in both countries, is the result of a Greenpeace Water Patrol investigation which studied nitrate levels…
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World’s top climate experts to testify in landmark investigation into fossil fuel companies
Some of the world’s most highly-regarded climate change science, policy, research, and legal experts will appear as witnesses in the ongoing hearings by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) on the responsibility of 47 fossil fuel companies for the global climate crisis.
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#IsyuHindiKandidato wants us to talk about issues that matter
#IsyuHindiKandidato initiative seeks to break through the usual election season noise and steer the discourse towards the issues and concrete solutions needed NOW.
