Environmentalists renewed calls for the repeal of the Philippine mining law and denounced moves to allow new mining applications.
‘Mining their own business’ | Groups call anew for scrapping of PH mining law
Category: Environment
‘Green City’ drives violence on environmental defenders
“If given the chance, I would like to speak with the Asian Development Bank, investors, and corporations to ask them why are they supporting the New Clark City project that brazenly violates our rights,” Chieftain Pet stated.
Southeast Asian environmentalists persist amid aggressive mining operations
A regional network of environmentalists called on international human rights bodies to pay close attention and actively condemn humans rights violations committed by governments and mining corporations during the pandemic and the recovery period to follow.
Duterte’s gov’t begs, displeases at COP26
The Philippine COP26 delegation courted climate finance but only secured an estimated $350 million package, just 12% of the country’s annual average climate-linked damages
‘COP26 sponsor Unilever named among the world’s biggest plastic polluter’
With world leaders holding a summit to agree on how to fight the climate crisis, an international environmental group is pointing out the obvious and how it is “particularly insulting” that one of the world’s biggest single-use plastic polluters is among its principal partners.
Farmer, agri officer attest to the demand for organic rice
For an organic practitioner in Santa Magdalena town in Sorsogon, he said there is demand for organic rice but the supply is lacking.
PH environment activists demand grassroots solutions to climate crisis at COP26
Six Filipino environment activists are attending side events and demonstrations at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland to demand grassroots solutions to the ongoing climate crisis.
Red lines for the Global South at COP26
By LEON DULCE This speech was delivered as part of a panel in the ‘People’s Struggles and Priorities on the Road to COP26’ webinar by the Southern People’s Action on COP26 last October 22, 2021. Good evening comrades and colleagues! We thank everyone for coming together in this meeting of hearts and minds deeply committed…
Students push for safe school reopening
“We believe that schools are the safest place for learning, but the criminal negligence of the Duterte regime has kept them closed for more than a year.”
Why ‘Balik Binhi Program’ is a proactive climate response
For organic farmers, innovation starts with seeds.
Lab Notes | PAREX: The extent of environmental pollution and degradation
Various organizations have collectively taken a position against Pasig River Expressway (PAREX), as it would cause irreparable damage not only to the Pasig River and its interconnecting ecosystems, but also to our cultural heritage and public transportation system.