Browsing by Subject "climate"
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170 states to sign landmark climate deal
(The Philippine Star,April 23, 2016 , on page 15)World leaders will gather at the United Nations today to sign the Paris climate deal and get the ball rolling on a quick entry into force to start beating back global warming. French President Francois Hollande and Canada's ... -
Asian leaders gather for climate workshop in Bacolod
(The Daily Guardian,April 3, 2018 , on page 6-14)The gathering, dubbed the “First Regional Training-Workshop on Measuring and Mitigating Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) from the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Sector,” is a project of the Department of Environment and ... -
Climate adaptation activities insufficient in developing cities
(Panay News,March 2, 2016 , on page B3)London - A large amount of money spent on measures to adapt to the impacts of climate change is more strongly linked with protecting big cities than helping the world's most vulnerable people to avert the worst impacts of ... -
Climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon
(Manila Bulletin,July 7, 2016 , on page B8)The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds ... -
French President visiting 'Yolanda'-hit areas ahead of crucial climate talks
(Manila Bulletin,January 25, 2015 , on page 1-13)French President Francois Hollande will visit the typhoon-ravaged Philippines in February to build momentum for crucial climate change talks that France is hosting this year, his environment envoy said Friday. Hollande ... -
In the know
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,January 4, 2015 , on page A14)The Northeast monsoon, locally known as amihan, usually peaks in January and ends in Ferbruary, bringing cooler days during these months. Baguio City, where the lowest temperature is most often observed, registered a reading ... -
International cooperation needed to lessen climate's impact on workers
(The Philippine Star,June 23, 2016 , on page B6)The Phillippine has called for stronger international cooperation to ensure the welfare of workers and ensure labor productivity as they face the impacts of climate change. -
PH doing badly vs climate change
(The Manila Times,May 18, 2018 , on page B7)I recently got hold of two reports on the effects of climate change that made me feel a great sense of fear. Great fear, I would even say. The report entitled “Fragile Planet, Scoring climate risks around the world” from ... -
PH signs Paris climate accord
(Panay News,April 25, 2016 , on page B2)Environment Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje signed the landmark international climate agreement reached in Paris last December during a high-level signing ceremony held on April 22 at the United Nations headquarters in New York ... -
RP is vulnerable to climate change
(Manila Standard,March 9, 2018 , on page A5)Today I adapt the article of my daughter Ivy on climate change at risk: In the last 20 years, the Philippines suffered the most catastrophic events (289). It’s the fifth most vulnerable to climate change with its recurrent ... -
Sea level rise accelerating
(Manila Bulletin,February 15, 2018 , on page B8)Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world's oceans on average will be at least 2 feet (61 centimeters) ... -
Slim chance of El Niño occurrence in next few months seen
(The Philippine Star,January 23, 2015 , on page 15)Scientists see a slim chance of an El Niño occurrence in the next few months as temperatures in the Pacific Ocean have dropped in the past two weeks. In a seasonal climate outlook released yesterday, the Philippine ... -
Slim odds of reaching 2-degree Celsius goal – researchers
(Manila Bulletin,August 3, 2017 , on page B8)There is a five-percent chance of limiting average global warming to under two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the target set in the 2015 climate-rescue Paris Agreement, researchers said. Based on these data, ... -
Synergy needed to fight climate change threats
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,June 20, 2016 , on page A15)At the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, we witnessed the adoption of the most historic global agreement on effectively addressing climate change. The United States and China committed to cut their emissions by ... -
Top scientists: climate change is real threat
(Manila Bulletin,June 30, 2016 , on page B8)Thirty-one of the country's top science organizations are telling Congress that global warming is a real problem and something needs to be done about it. The groups, which represent millions of scientists, sent the letter ... -
Top UN official underlines importance of healthy oceans
(Manila Bulletin,June 30, 2016 , on page B8)The UN deputy secretary-general, Jan Eliasson, said here that healthy oceans are critical to maintaining life on the planet, stressing their connection to broader sustainable development aims. Addressing the opening of the ... -
What happens in the oceans affects us all
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,April 29, 2016 , on page A17)If we are merely looking at the vast expanse of waters from the shores of Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia, or living in the landlocked Lao People’s Democratic Republic, we will tend to think that oceans ...