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(Eagle News)–Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is calling for a probe into the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. In renewing his call also for an update on the Nationally Determined Contribution, the plan that ensures that the country meets its intended commitment to reduce at least 70 percent of greenhouse gas by 2030 in accordance with the Paris Agreement, Gatchalian noted that the state “has the constitutional obligation to protect and advance the right of the people to […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, May 9, said the Paris Agreement could turn out to be a “farce.” “(This) could be a farce if we cannot compel the other nations especially the industrialized nations to follow,” the President said after the presentation of New Generation Coins in Malacanang. While Duterte welcomed the limits to carbon footprints being imposed in the agreement signed by 194 countries, including those from the European Union and […]
Greenhouse gas emissions by the world’s top 500 companies rose 3.1 percent from 2010 to 2013, far off the cuts urged by the United Nations to limit global warming, a study showed on Monday. The top 500 firms by capitalisation accounted for 13.8 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions and 28 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, according to the report, drawn up by the information provider Thomson Reuters and BSD Consulting, a global […]
President Aquino appealed to all countries to unite in the fight against climate change. This is the theme of the President’s speech to the leaders of 41 nations including Mauritius, South Africa, Mexico, Norway and Switzerland that attended the United Nation Climate Summit in New York City. He also asked the international community to stop the debate regarding greenhouse gas emissions and instead start helping each other solve the problem. The UN Climate Change Summit […]
