Browsing by Subject "fossil fuels"

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    • 'Climate change may threaten $2.5 trillion in financial assets' 

      (Panay News, April 7, 2016, on page C5)
      Climate change can destroy assets directly through sea-level rise for example, by depreciating their value, or by disrupting economic activities lower down the chain through drought or freak storms. A lot of research has ...

    • Climate change will stall PH, SE Asia growth 

      Celis, Angela (Malaya, January 12, 2016, on page A1-A4)
      Climate change will stall growth in Southeast Asian countries including the Philippines. David Raitzer, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department project officer and economist, said ...

    • Climate-oriented dev't to save millions from poverty 

      Caraballo, Mayvelin U. (The Manila Times, December 2, 2016, on page A2)
      More than 100 million people from Asia Pacific countries including the Philippines may fall into extreme poverty by 2030 without climate-oriented development in the region, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission ...

    • Disappearing beaches 

      (Panay News, March 9, 2020, on page 12)
      The Philippines may be small in land area, but with over 7,100 islands, the country has one of the most extensive coastlines in the world. This makes archipelago among the most vulnerable to the impact of global warming. ...

    • Exxon allots billions to turn algae into fuel 

      Bloomberg (Manila Standard, November 5, 2017, on page B2)
      One of the world's biggest oil companies is pumping more than $1 billion a year into alternative forms of energy from algae engineered to bloom into biofuels and cells that turn emissions into electricity. The funds from ...

    • Fighting climate change 

      Mariano, Nathaniel (Manila Standard, February 12, 2018, on page D11)
      Intense rainfall persisting over days, droughts threatening the farmlands and the farmers' livelihood, continuously rising sea levels and alarming flashfloods -- these are only some of the negative effects that the mankind ...

    • Fighting climate change 

      (Manila Standard, June 5, 2018, on page C2)
      Intense rainfall persisting over days, droughts threatening the farmlands and the farmers’ livelihood, continuously rising sea levels and alarming flashfloods – these are only some of the negative effects that the mankind ...

    • Forego fuel reserves to limit climate change 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 9, 2015, on page A18)
      A third of the world's oil reserves, half of gas reserves and 80 percent of current coal reserves, should not be used in the coming decades of global warming is to stay below an agreed 2 degree Celsius target, scientists ...

    • French leader to make PH Ground Zero in climate action 

      Quismundo, Tarra (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 25, 2015, on page A6)
      On the historic first visit of a French head of state to the Philippines in February, French President François Hollande will be seeking the help of a country battered—but never defeated—by climate change. France is turning ...

    • Global warming set to pass 2°C threshold in 2050 

      (Manila Bulletin, October 6, 2016, on page B-8)
      Earth is on track to sail past the two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold for dangerous global warming by 2050, seven of the world's top climate scientists warned Thursday. Since 1990, devastating weather-related ...

    • Going beyod the hour: celebrating successful ecological initiatives in the Philippines 

      Fabonan, Epi III (The Philippine Star, March 25, 2017, on page 19)
      Climate change is drastically changing the condition of the world’s oceans. With rising temperatures brought about by the greenhouse effect, the world’s oceans are becoming more acidic, thus making them more inhospitable ...

    • Green architecture helps mitigate effects of climate change 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 22, 2015, on page B-8)
      Climate change is taking its toll on our country. Rainy seasons have become unpredictable, bringing severe flooding and other dire conditions that scientists predict will become more frequent as the planet continues to ...

    • Iloilo oil spill sparks calls to limit use of fossil fuels 

      Mayuga, Jonathan L. (BusinessMirror, July 7, 2020, on page A8-A4)
      AC Energy is facing severe penalty and fine for the Iloilo oil spill under Republic Act 9275 or the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004. This, as several groups have expressed fear that failure to contain the oil spill may ...

    • Investors need climate change behavioral shift 

      Reuters (BusinessWorld, June 8, 2015, on page A7)
      Most investors need to make a significant behavioral shift and start factoring climate change into their portfolio risk management, a study on its impact on financial market returns found on Thursday. A study by consultants ...

    • New warning issued on climate change 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 28, 2016, on page B-9)
      According to scientists and environmentalist, the risk remains that the continued development of carbon-rich deposits around the world will harm the planet, increasing temperatures and negating all efforts at mitigating ...

    • The ocean is dying (2) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, May 26, 2017, on page 12)
      There were many factors that caused the death of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) but among them were drilling for oil and mining and the death blow was global warming. The uncontrolled use of fossil fuels such as carbon, oil, ...

    • Oil spill a wakeup call 

      (Panay News, July 9, 2020, on page 6)
      Thousands of liters of oil spilled into the waters off Iloilo on July 3, 2020 after an explosion at a power barge owned by AC Energy. Authorities’ earlier estimate was an area of around 1,200 square meters affected. This ...

    • Pope calls for action on climate change in draft encyclical 

      (The Philippine Star, June 17, 2015, on page A-21)
      The Vatican said the document, leaked by the magazine l'Espresso, was not the final version. That is due for release on Thursday. "The rules of the embargo remain in place. We ask journalists to respect professional ...

    • Pope says humanity will 'go down' if it does not address climate change 

      Pullella, Philip (Malaya, September 13, 2017, on page B6)
      Pope Francis said the recent spate of hurricanes should prompt people to understand that humanity will "go down" if it does not address climate change and history will judge those who deny the science on its causes. "If ...

    • Sea level rise will swallow Miami, New Orleans - study 

      (The Manila Times, October 15, 2015, on page A6)
      Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas, according to a study today. But making extreme carbon cuts and moving to ...