Just a few hours after using a mobile app to order some dishwashing liquid, Jakarta resident Juweriah opens the door to a motorbike courier who provides a direct refill in her kitchen.
A cargo ship carrying tons of chemicals sank off Sri Lanka’s west coast, its navy said on Wednesday, June 2, and tons of plastic pellets have fouled the country’s rich fishing waters in one of its worst-ever marine disasters.
The German government is backing an extension of European Union carbon pricing and an end to free carbon permits for airlines as the bloc prepares new measures to help meet climate change targets, according to a document seen by Reuters.
The European Union needs legally binding measures to protect nature and biodiversity, the European Parliament said on Wednesday, June 9, warning that previous voluntary plans have failed to deliver.
Most airliners will rely on traditional jet engines until at least 2050, Airbus told European Union officials in a briefing released on Thursday, June 10, on its research into creating zero-emissions hydrogen-fueled planes.
The United States is ending a Cambodian aid program aimed at protecting one of the country’s biggest wildlife sanctuaries, citing worsening deforestation and the silencing of those who speak out about the destruction of natural resources.
Pala’wan indigenous community leader Simpio Mata trudges through the natural forest of Mount Domadoway, in the southern part of the Philippines’ Palawan province, at least twice a month. He does this primarily to check on the presence of towering trees the Pala’wan consider sacred homes for tau’t kekeywan (forest spirits). Recently, the 42-year-old Mata said he has been aghast to see felled trees.
An agreement by some or all of the Group of 20 countries on a flexible global carbon price floor would help limit global warning to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius, the International Monetary Fund said in a new staff paper released Friday, June 18.
President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the temporary suspension of sand and gravel quarry operations in Negros Oriental.
The public can seek assistance from the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Philippine Army (PA) in rescuing Philippine Eagles (Pithecophaga jefferyi) and in apprehending individuals who violate laws that protect this endangered bird.
More than 122,000 hectares of denuded forestlands and watersheds have been rehabilitated in Central Luzon through the Enhanced National Greening Program (E-NGP) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) regional office here since 2011.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is targeting to facilitate the continuity of mining exploration projects in the country.
The United Kingdom will continue working with the Philippines to tackle climate change and promote biodiversity conservation, British Ambassador to Manila Daniel Pruce said Wednesday.
The Philippines will seek developed countries’ funding assistance for nationwide adaptation to climate change which is mainly caused by these countries’ respective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Achieving “net-zero GHG emissions” (or “climate neutrality”) is one of the most relevant targets of climate mitigation policies worldwide. Importantly, this goal requires not only rapid and deep GHG emission reductions but simultaneously the protection of GHG sinks and the significant enhancement of GHG removals.
IUCN WCEL Environment Week consisted of a series of daily roundtable discussions with leading environmental law experts from around the world.
They addressed pressing environmental issues including why it is taking so long to formulate binding principles which would govern the relations between humans and the environment.
The IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) has decided to split the 2nd World Environmental Law Congress (originally planned for Rio de Janeiro in March 2020) into a series of converging regional hybrid events that will take place between July and December 2021.
Environmental groups sued the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today for illegally exempting itself from the Sunshine Act, which requires multi-member federal agencies to open deliberations to the public. The DFC provides billions of dollars in financing each year to international projects, including fracking and environmentally destructive road-building.
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