#Pollution
Mindless consumption and a throwaway culture has filled our oceans with plastic pollution. The cutting down of forests has reached a scale that has previously been unimaginable. This has to stop. If we put people and planet over profit, a world free from pollution and environmental degradation is possible.
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Greenpeace statement on the “sea of garbage” after monsoon rains
A “sea of garbage” from Manila Bay near Baclaran Church[1] went viral after several days of monsoon rains that inundated several parts of Metro Manila and nearby provinces.
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Massacre of trees under a climate crisis is not development —Greenpeace and NAPC-VDC
The cutting down of 617 decades-old trees along Quirino Avenue and Roxas Blvd. in pursuit of profits by the country’s richest of the rich is deeply alarming and unacceptable.
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Who gets to call destruction development?
The cutting of mature trees in Manila to give way to the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEx) forces us to ask a basic but often avoided question: development for whom?
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People vs Plastic
The results of this survey demonstrate that there is overwhelming public support for the Global Plastics Treaty to cut plastic production, end single-use plastics and advance reuse-based solutions.
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Kuha sa Tingi
Discover how large-scale investments to reuse and refill systems can end sachet pollution, while providing economic benefits to communities.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Managing air quality beyond COVID-19
Air pollution doesn’t have to be an inescapable reality. The ECQ gave Filipino citizens a glimpse of what cities can be like with vastly improved air quality. It also showed us that air pollution can be solved without sacrificing people’s access to mobility.
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Waste trade and the Philippines: How local and global policy instruments can stop the tide of foreign waste dumping in the country
A policy paper that looks at current waste and importation laws to identify gaps and loopholes that allow waste trade to happen.