Eco-Business

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The department of agrarian reform has issued a “cease and desist” order against San Miguel Corp and Linseed’s gas facilities being built along the biodiverse Verde Island Passage. But it is unsure if the developers have followed the order.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2020

SunPower will hold onto its space at the Oregon plant it purchased from SolarWorld in 2018 and later sold, and Maxeon will take ownership of the company’s manufacturing plants in Malaysia, France, the Philippines and Mexico, as well as maintaining a joint venture in China with state-owned Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

The report, Smart Metering in Asia-Pacific , analyses the development of smart metering technology in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand. million units in 2021 to 1.1 billion units in 2027. Asia-Pacific rollout.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rystad added how, outside Australia , the other markets that exhibited high volatility in their research were Japan and the Philippines, plus select regions of the US, such as California and Texas.

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Eco-Business

MAY 5, 2023

In the early 1990s, the coastal town of Prieto Diaz, in the Philippines’ Bicol region, was selected as a pilot area for a community-based resource management program created by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2023

He did note, however, that tropical countries where the effects of El Niño are most intense — Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines — see radical declines in economic growth following an El Niño “comparable in size to financial crises or other disasters.” trillion and $5.7 trillion in 2017 dollars, respectively.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As the Philippine delegation presses for funds to pay for the loss and damage caused by extreme weather events, climate negotiators explain why it is in the country’s best interests that the conference is held in a developing region.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, for example, is said to have lowered the Earth’s average temperature by about 0.4°C C for over a year. Although it isn’t specifically mentioned, an obvious impact for our sector would be on the hundreds of gigawatts of solar capacity in place and the many more in prospect.

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Eco-Business

MAY 17, 2022

To mark Endangered Species Day, Eco-Business examines a proposed 43-kilometre bridge aimed to connect provinces in the Philippines' Visayas region, at the expense of a critically threatened species of dolphin.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 21, 2023

So we chatted with Ben Allard, Planet’s VP of Sales – Asia, to get his take on the regional market dynamics and his perspective on where the Earth observation (EO) industry is – and where it’s headed. Sustainability and the increasing tension in the Indo-Pacific region are certainly drivers of attention.

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Charged

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Today, much of the nickel that goes into EV batteries is produced by strip mines in Indonesia and the Philippines, and from a sulfur dioxide-spewing mine in Norilsk, Russia. The region is one of the poorest parts of Minnesota. This again is an assault on Native culture, a disturbance of our way of being.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s the assessment of major environmental organizations based in South Korea and Japan, whose representatives told DeSmog that rather than increasing east and southeast Asia’s dependance on an economically volatile and planet-warming energy source it would be much better for the region to shift from coal directly into renewables.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many people are already familiar with Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and China as some of the leaders of geothermal development in Asia. The geothermal gradient, granite heat production and the heat flow are measured to be higher than the global average (for non-volcanic regions). In a study by Lim et al.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

By a stroke of good fortune, the storm hit a relatively unpopulated region, causing only six deaths. When another one of the most powerful storms, Typhoon Haiyan, struck the Philippines in 2013 with winds of 195 miles per hour, it killed more than 6,000 people, making it one of the deadliest disasters in modern history.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Region by region, the document describes “widespread, pervasive impacts” to ecosystems, people, settlements, and infrastructure. Devastation from Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through the Philippines in 2013. Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The more coal-dependent a country is, the more pro-coal its news reporting is—this was the trend among five major countries in the region surveyed by youth-led organisation Climate Tracker. Why is the Philippines the only outlier?

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

There has been rapid growth in climate lawsuits in the Philippines, Japan, and India over the past two years, a report by US-based law firm White & Case has found. As a climate-vulnerable region, why hasn't there been more legal action?

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

There has been rapid growth in climate lawsuits in the Philippines, Japan, and India over the past two years, a report by US-based law firm White & Case has found. As a climate-vulnerable region, why hasn't there been more legal action?

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Planet Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

Forest rehabilitation is also a project the Philippines’ Forest Management Bureau is undertaking with the help of satellite data. The value of a tract of land is determined by the area of standing trees. Just like in the harvesting phase, accurate area calculations are critical.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Philippine energy secretary Alfonso Cusi said the government will no longer accept applications for new coal power plants. What does this mean for the Southeast Asian nation estimated to have the biggest coal appetite in the region?

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AGreenLiving

MAY 3, 2021

According to the researchers behind the study, the magnitude of pollution from a river can be influenced by various factors, with the key factors being water management policies in the region, amount of local rainfall and a region’s proximity to oceans.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 3, 2021

According to the researchers behind the study, the magnitude of pollution from a river can be influenced by various factors, with the key factors being water management policies in the region, amount of local rainfall and a region’s proximity to oceans.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 17, 2023

Stay tuned for Getting to Ground Truth in Asia – Part Two, in which we’ll see how New Zealand and the Philippines are using satellite data to monitor forest harvest and growth.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Any remaining emissions will be offset with carbon credits purchased from Carbon Footprint Limited that support wind farms in India, solar power installations in the Philippines, and reforestation projects in the Amazon Rainforest and the UK, TWE said.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

PANDAN, ANTIQUE, The Philippines September 11, 2019-Northern Panay in the Philippines' Visayas island will be the first region in the country to benefit from a climate knowledge-sharing, support and advocacy consortium of national government agencies, local government units (LGUs), and higher education institutions (HEIs).

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

JULY 5, 2018

the only first-world country in the region and one that should be leading by example?—?remains link] All in all, ASEAN is the worst-performing region globally in terms of renewable energy deployment and transport sector electrification. Powerful fossil fuel lobbies across the ASEAN region are also hindering progress.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In the Philippines, for example, 92 per cent of the people surveyed believed that "the future is frightening". A report published in August by UNICEF revealed that one billion children around the world were at extreme risk from climate change, with the regions most at risk of the worst climate impacts found in developing countries.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

By 2050, the world population will grow to almost 10 billion people, especially in regions most impacted by climate change. "Climate risk affects every society, every company and every individual," said Thierry Léger, the firm's chief underwriting officer and chairman of Swiss Re Institute. "By

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Whether you were raised in the region, or you’re dying to introduce your taste buds to some new flavors, Filipino food offers comfort and variety. Put simply: It refers to foods traditional to the Philippines. Adobo Adobo is perhaps one of the most ubiquitous dishes of the Philippines. This isn’t a one-step or a one-pan dish.

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 11, 2022

For example, everyone knows that Switzerland is wealthier than, say, the Philippines, and therefore more nominally competitive as a society and business location. But how well does Switzerland actually perform, given its advantages? How well does it perform versus other highly developed nations?

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 14, 2021

This approach not only confirms what one might already believe about the difference in regional challenges (ie Africa vs. South America), but can also discern smaller differences between, say Senegal and Ghana, Vietnam and the Philippines, or Colombia and Peru. I encourage them to reach out to us on the Climate 4.0

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2021

People from Latin America, the Philippines, parts of Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have told the Coalition they are facing obstacles. Our region has been historically underrepresented in the climate talks.”. Economic barriers and restrictions are increasing without consideration of our right to participate.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

One example is soil abundant in tropical regions that typically contain 0.5 Strip mining takes place in thick layers of soil containing more than 1 percent nickel by weight that occur in places like Brazil, Cuba, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Caledonia, the French territory in the South Pacific. Courtesy of Antony van der Ent.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 4, 2020

In October five indigenous leaders were massacred in the southwestern region of Cauca in Colombia. Not all of these murders occurred in central and south America many also took place in Asia, most notably in the Philippines and India. His partner was also injured but managed to escape. Poachers have taken a toll on rangers in Africa.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The pilot projects will also test the integration of transition credits in the Philippines. MAS aims to support the region in accelerating the phase-out of CFPPs through these initiatives. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments in this area.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 30, 2020

Related: Locally crafted children’s learning center doubles as an emergency shelter in the Philippines One of the most compelling aspects of Luminary is its architecture, which is unlike anything else in the immediate region.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 30, 2020

GE remains deeply committed to Vietnam's energy future - our 5MW Cypress turbines are ideally suited to make the best use of the Vietnam's tremendous wind energy potential," said Deepak Maloo, Regional Sales Leader of GE Onshore Wind. US cents per kWh.

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