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Navotas landfill fire latest in dangerous trend of waste disasters
Following the fire at the closed Navotas Sanitary Landfill in Barangay Tanza, Navotas, environmental group Greenpeace Philippines warned that the incident is part of a growing and dangerous pattern of waste catastrophes in the Philippines, underscoring the urgent need to address the country’s waste crisis at source, through reduction.
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Months after deadly trash slides, groups say gaps persist, call out weak policies
Months after the fatal trash slides in Cebu and Rizal, impacted communities and civil society organizations say little has changed in addressing the country’s worsening waste and plastic crisis. The groups gathered at the University of the Philippines Cebu for a public forum to push for stronger accountability and upstream solutions, warning that without strong…
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Local oil, gas expansion to lock PH into fossil fuels, raise emissions amid energy crisis
Greenpeace Philippines is sounding the alarm over the government’s renewed push to further explore oil and gas in the protected Liguasan Marsh—in parallel with those being done in Tawi-Tawi, Cebu and Malampaya
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Marcos energy emergency declaration must deliver systemic and climate-responsive reforms, aside from much-needed immediate relief
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s declaration of a national energy emergency must deliver immediate relief to Filipinos amid staggering oil price hikes and the US-Iran war, as the country remains under a year-long state of calamity.
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PH Environmental Groups Apprehensive of DENR Sec. Cuna Appointment
We, environmental justice groups, express serious concern over the appointment of Undersecretary Juan Miguel Cuna as the new Acting Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
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Greenpeace: Trash slides are bound to happen again, PH government must act now
Communities residing near Binaliw Landfill hold a candle lighting vigil, expressing their indignation for the suffering they are experiencing from the impacts of the neighboring dumpsite. Last January, 36 waste workers lost their lives to the trash slide that buried the waste segregation facility they were working in. Weeks after the tragedy in Binaliw, a…
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Greenpeace joins calls for high ranking officials involved in flood control scandal to step down
As Filipinos mark the 40th anniversary of the EDSA People Power, Greenpeace Philippines joined thousands of Filipinos and fellow environmentalists demanding the investigation, prosecution, and dismissal of high ranking officials involved in the flood control scandal.
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Greenpeace: Rizal landfill collapse exposes gov’t inaction on waste
Weeks after the Binaliw landfill tragedy, which claimed 36 lives, another trash slide incident happened in Rodriguez, Rizal. Reports claim that there are at least three individuals missing since a portion of the landfill collapsed last Friday afternoon.
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New Plastics Treaty chair must restore trust, transparency, and ambition — Greenpeace
Following the election of H.E. Ambassador Julio Cordano of Chile as the new Chair of the committee tasked with negotiating a Global Plastics Treaty, Greenpeace Philippines said the appointment must mark a turning point for the treaty talks and the start of a renewed effort to rebuild trust in the process, particularly for countries in…
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Shell’s $18.5 billion profits underscore the cost paid by Philippine typhoon survivors
The profit announcement comes less than two months after 103 Filipino survivors of Super Typhoon Odette filed a landmark case against Shell in UK courts, citing research linking fossil fuel emissions to the increasing likelihood of devastating storms in the Philippines.