Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Green Assembly
PHILIPPINES (Southeast Asia)
CO2 Emissions p.capita (tonnes) UN
World Ranking CO2 Emissions (p.capita) UN
EPI World Ranking Climate Change
TI World Ranking Corruption
TI Asia Ranking Corruption
Ratified Kyoto Protocol (year)
0.97
65
37
141
18
2003
Compiled by Green Assembly. Data sourced from the UN,Transparency International,and EPI
THE PHILIPPINES is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and according to the [...]
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Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ Illegal logging in Isabela, the second biggest province of the Philippines, is out of control, according to the province’s governor.
Grace Padaca told reporters she had just learned that 11 million board feet of logs have been sawn from illegally felled timber in the province’s Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park.
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ The Philippines Department of Environment is recruiting law students who are being trained to prosecute violators of environmental law in the country’s 117 green courts.
“The recruitment of law students to assist in prosecuting environmental criminals is now underway through the Alliance of Law Students of the Philippines (ALSP),” the country’s environment and natural [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Green Assembly
Too few biofuels meet eco-standards
SINGAPORE ~ Less than a fifth of the biofuel used on UK roads meets environmental standards , the Renewable Fuels Association reported recently.
Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth’s (FoE’s) biofuels campaigner said:
“The shocking admission that we are unable to identify the origin of nearly half the biofuels used in the UK [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ The Philippines president, Gloria Arroyo, appears to be putting her personal stamp of approval on the propagation of jatropha as an alternative source of fuel for the Philippines, according to the Manila Bulletin.
In her recent “state of the nation” speech she announced that land throughout the country is being set aside for jatropha [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ The Olongapo City government has passed a resolution objecting to a proposed 300 MW coal power plant in the Subic Bay area. Greenpeace Southeast Asia welcomed the decision and has called on other Philippine cities and provinces to join the movement to ‘quit coal’ and go renewable as a solution to stop dangerous [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ Greenpeace Water Patrol activists stalled the operations of a waste dump in Angono, Rizal which has encroached on the shores of Laguna Lake, by blockading its entrance with steel scaffolding to prevent garbage trucks from entering and continuing to dump the municipality’s refuse in the site.
The activists, who wore orange cover-alls, also [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Green Assembly
NO Asian country came out of the UN climate talks in Accra better than South Korea which was roundly praised by participants, including WWF and Greenpeace, for adopting a US$multi-billion “green” plan.
Singapore also made the headlines when the European Union accused the island state of being one of the developing nations with the strongest [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ The government of the Philippines is committed to converting to natural gas some 500,000 tuk-tuk style petrol-driven tricycles within the next four years, as part of the country’s efforts to reduce its carbon emissions.
News of the plan came last week when the Philippine National Oil Company confirmed it had inked a deal with [...]
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