Newsletter: Greenpeace statement on int’l business coalition support for 'Bridge to Busan'

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For Greenpeace, true sustainability requires more ambitious action, including the phase out of single-use plastics like sachets and a 75% reduction in plastic production to stay below the critical 1.5°C global warming threshold.

As the world gears up for the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty, the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty has signed the 'Bridge to Busan' declaration. This move, supported by over 250 businesses and institutions, calls for addressing the full lifecycle of plastics, including limiting the production of primary plastic polymers.

Newsletter: More intense typhoons to come this century, UP study warns

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Warming of sea surface in Asia-Pacific. Redder areas indicate a higher increase in temperature. (Photo credit: Delfino, R.J. et al. Response of damaging Philippines tropical cyclones to a warming climate using the pseudo global warming approach. Clim Dyn 61 (2023): p. 3506.)

The Philippines should brace for potentially stronger and more destructive typhoons due to climate change, warns new research coming out of the University of the Philippines - Diliman College of Science’s  Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology (UPD-CS IESM).

Epson encourages companies to go "Green"

01/04/2020 06:14:14 PM

With advancements comes the dangerous risks that involve our environment. The Philippines, despite being one of the fastest-growing countries in Asia, is also considered the most prone to hazards by climate change – an alarming reality that can put every Filipino's lives in peril. That said, there are pressing environmental issues that are needed to be acknowledged and addressed right away. 

Cafe Scientique Talks: Why Should We Bother With Science? (And Climate Change As Well)

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Poster of Cafe Scientique. (Photo credit: http://sailorstarcatcher.net/)

Let's face it: one of the least interesting topics we used to have in our respective everyday lives is "science." And with the advent of climate change issues, most of us tend to ignore everything that we may need to know. But the even worst scenario is if all else fails, I mean everything around us are totally ravaged due to our own share of indolence, unawareness and failure to prepare, we blame the government.

OVER-DEVELOPMENT KILLS?

Yan ang patunay sa isang kasabihan na “lahat ng sobra ay nakakasama na.” Oo, kahit sa lebel ng mga gusali’t iba pang imprastraktura ang usapan.

Ewan ko lang ha. Pero sa panahon na umuusbong ang kaliwa’t kanang mga proyekto sa Kamaynilaan, mapa-skyscraper man o flyover, parang luamala din ang epekto ng kalamidad ditto. As in, nag level-up din ba, baagy na talaga naming hindi maganda. Nagsulputan na parang kabute ang mga gusali na nilaan apra gawing mga unit ng condo, nagkaroon din ng mga magagandang alternatibong ruta para kahit papaano ay maibsan ang nakakabadtrip na heavy traffic. Pero dahil sa mga tulad ni Ondoy noong 2009 at noong Agosto, ang isang simpleng sama ng panahon na kung tawagin ay Habagat, tila na-negate nito ang mga pagusbong ng mukha sa Metro Manila. Saklap.

Kaya minsa, naisip ko, deklikado nga pala ang pagiging labis na developed ang isang lugar. Sabagay, sa nasabing termino nga naman na “labis,” e matik na masama na rin e, kahit gaano pa kaganda ang layunin.

Plastic ban?!

Noong mga nagdaang buwan, inimplementa na ng ilang mga lokal na pamhalaan sa Metro Manila (pati na rin yata sa ibang mga lalawigan sa Pilipinas) ang pagbawal sa paggamit ng isang materyal na nakakasama sa ating kapaligiran. Ang plastik.

May kanya-kanyang gimik na rin ang bawat negosyante, lalo na sa mga supermarket. Hinihikayat nila na gumamit ang mga mamimili ng mga reusable na bag. At naniningil sila ng karagdagang halaga sa kada supot o plastic bag na magagamit. Aniya, gagamitin ang anumang makokolekta sa mga proyekto na may kinalaman sa pagtulong sa naghihingalong Inang Kalikasan.

BASURA: Ang Ugat ng Mga Delubyong Naganap

12:02 AM 08/11/2012 

Ika nga ng kasabihan, "Ang basurang tinapon mo, tiyak na babalik rin sa iyo."

2012 theory? That’s a fluke!

2012 theory? That’s a fluke!
Slick master
24.01.2011 – 11:12

I was personally disgusted by the way news had make its own analysis on what happened during the first few weeks of the year. Since flashfloods arouse around the Pacific area and also on American continent, many people would have wondered if either (1) it’s a sign of climate change; or (2) the coming of the end of the world? However, most people tends to think even more negative will had the second answer as their thought, especially of the fact that 2012 had shown a few months after a series of storms ravaged the Northern part of the Philippines in 2009.

Well, I used to remember reading that type of topic in one of my friend’s site in Multiply, relating to the Mayan Calendar stating that at December 20, 2012, there will be a huge disaster that can spell doom for the planet Earth. At first, I was scared, thinking that “man, is this for real??!” however, it also came to my mind that when it talks about judgment day, it is only God who knows when to do so and no other creature does.

So there is allegation of possibility that the disasters occurred during the last 18 months could be a sign of the end of the world or they called it as “2012 theory.”

HOWEVER, I STRONGLY OPPOSED TO THAT IDEA.

‘Cause people hearing that kind of news could be either stunned at disbelief, or will go panicking. After all, media had plays the role of manipulating the minds of society. If people can think otherwise, maybe they will realize that there is a lesson on watching 2012 than just believing on what they saw. Another thing is that people will took it the other way (or from negative to positive) and making changes in helping themselves, the society and the environment as well.

I mean let’s just face it and think wisely. Whatever catastrophe’s occurred in the world right now is clearly not the sign of the end. It’s just the fact that the climate on the world we are living in to now, is changing. We can slow down the process of it if we want to. And that can be by means of taking care of our environment.