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US climate envoy Kerry says islands face 'beyond existential' threat

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 04 11:51 PM

MANILA - US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday island nations faced a situation "beyond existential" due to climate change, as he called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies and coal plant financing. Read more »

1 billion people live in cities shifting away from fossil fuels

Jack Graham, Reuters
Posted at Mar 18 06:49 PM

The number of cities working to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy surged in 2020, representing a quarter of the world's urban population, or one billion people, green energy policy network REN21 said on Thursday. Read more »

Fitch sees stable energy security in PH amid slower coal power growth

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 11:48 AM

The Philippines will have stable energy security over the decade with the 20 gigawatts of new power projects in the pipeline, despite slower growth of coal power projects, an analyst from Fitch Solutions said on Friday. Read more »

Pandemics, climate change 'intensify' global health threats

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 03 01:25 PM

From small island states to urbanized powerhouses, every country on Earth faces "multiplying and intensifying" threats to human health as climate change renders future pandemics and system collapses ever more likely, a major study has concluded. Read more »

Biden plan to end US fossil fuel subsidies faces big challenges

Timothy Gardner, Reuters
Posted at Dec 01 08:50 PM

US President-elect Joe Biden's promise to end fossil fuel subsidies worth billions of dollars a year for drillers and miners could be hard to keep due to resistance from lawmakers in a narrowly divided Congress, including from within his own party. Read more »

Big Oil is in trouble; Its plan: Flood Africa with plastic

Hiroko Tabuchi, Michael Corkery and Carlos Mureithi, The New York Times
Posted at Aug 31 07:30 AM

Confronting a climate crisis that threatens the fossil fuel industry, oil companies are racing to make more plastic. But they face 2 problems: Many markets are already awash with plastic, and few countries are willing to be dumping grounds for the world’s plastic waste.   Read more »

Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 06:11 PM

The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment. Read more »

Is there legal weight in CHR’s unprecedented report vs carbon majors?

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 21 10:59 AM

After successfully framing climate change as a human rights issue, questions remain as to how the historic CHR assessment can become legally binding. Read more »

Climate change a human rights issue: CHR

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 09:34 AM

Climate change is a human rights issue, the country's independent rights body said Wednesday after it ruled that carbon majors or large fossil fuel companies are "morally responsible" to invest in clean energy.   Read more »

Tighter climate policies could erase $2.3-T in companies value - report

Ron Bousso, Reuters
Posted at Dec 09 10:30 AM

Tighter government climate regulations by 2025 could wipe up to $2.3 trillion off the value of companies in industries ranging from fossil fuel producers to agriculture and car makers, an investor group warned in a report.  Read more »

Climate change poses 'lifelong' child health risk

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 14 07:56 AM

Climate change will damage the health of an entire generation unless there are immediate cuts to fossil fuel emissions, from a rise in deadly infectious diseases to surging malnutrition, experts warned Thursday. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 20, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 12:07 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

Global climate strike

Greenpeace handout
Posted at Sep 20 03:02 PM

Environmental activists from Greenpeace climb on top of one of the facilities of Shell Philippines' Batangas refinery to unfurl a banner against the use of fossil fuels. Read more »