KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/21 April) — Southwestern Mindanao is highly at risk in a changing climate condition, with increased rainfall and rising sea levels, an official warned on Friday. Herlita G. Caraan, National Statistical Coordination BoardRegion 12 chief, said that more rainfall, an increase in temperature and rising sea level would hit the area in the [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/14 January) — A coalition of religious, nongovernment and civil society organizations today said they will advance “a bigger commitment to prevent more Sendongs by working for climate and economic justice” at the same time that they started giving stress debriefing sessions for survivors of the flood brought by Storm Sendong [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/1 Dec) – This city is least vulnerable to climate change compared to three urban areas in the country, namely, Baguio, Ilo-ilo and Cebu, a recent study conducted by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Philippines and the Bank of the Philippine Islands Foundation revealed. The study entitled “Business Risk Assessment and the [...]

ALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 Sept) – The province of Bukidnon is one of 10 provinces in the country selected as a pilot area for the Joint Programme on Strengthening the Philippines’ Institutional Capacity to adapt to climate change, according to the National Economic Development Authority, which spearheads the program in the country. The joint program, dubbed [...]

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/27 June) – People living in low-lying and coastal areas should begin moving out now in anticipation of the likely impact of climate change, an official warned alluding to the projected rise in sea levels once polar ice melts as a result of higher atmospheric temperatures due to the phenomenon called global warming. [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/2 March) – The provincial government of Misamis Oriental is integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (DRR-CC) in its development planning and decision-making. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) said that the province is making efforts to be fully compliant with the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/07 January) – Agham Party-list Rep. Angelo Palmones has asked the public to ignore calls made by leftist and environment groups to oppose the plan to build a coal-fired power plant in Sarangani province in Southwestern Mindanao. In a radio interview, Palmones said the people should not listen to the “uproar” of groups [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 December) —Mayor Sara Duterte is standing pat on her earlier stand against the coal-fired power plant in the city but it would be the city council, not the city chief executive, who will have the final say on the project, she said. The City Council is chaired by the vice mayor, Rodrigo [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 December) — One hand reaches out to protect the environment while another hand continues to destroy it. This was how the Focus on Global South and groups calling for “climate justice” described the country’s largest power conglomerates in their commitment for renewable energy projects under the clean development mechanism (CDM) scheme provided [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 November)— Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are not practical in Mindanao to plug the supply shortfall expected to hit the island in the next few years, an official of a firm engaged in power generation said. Joseph C. Nocos, vice president of Conal Holdings Corp., issued the statement [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 November)—The clean development mechanism or CDM set up by the Kyoto Protocol has failed to bring down the amount of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere, groups concerned about climate change said. Joseph Purugganan, research associate of the Focus on the Global South-Philippine Programme, said that despite the implementation of CDM [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY  (MindaNews/21 November) — Former Senator Heherson Alvarez, vice chair of the Climate Change Commission  justified his actions supporting the bid of Korea in the 2012 Climate Change Summit despite being told by the Dept. of Foreign Affairs that the country had already supported the bid of Qatar for the important global [...]

SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/18 Nov) – Climate Change finance took center stage during today’s launching of the Depensa! Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (CCA-DRR) campaign here. Rep. Lorenzo Tañada III said that a new law has to be passed in order to fund climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the grassroots communities. [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 November) – A ranking foreign affairs official  has rebuked Climate Change Commission vice chairperson Heherson Alvarez for committing the country’s support to South Korea’s bid to host the 2012 Climate Change Summit. In a letter dated Nov. 12, 2010 a copy of which was obtained by MindaNews, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 November)—Rainbow Warrior, the campaign ship of the environment group Greenpeace, will dock at Makar wharf in General Santos City on Friday, November 19, to support the protest against the planned construction of a coal-fired power plant in Maasim town in neighboring Sarangani province. Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior. Photo courtesy of GreenpeaceLea Guerrero, [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/12 November) – Less than two months before the 2010 Climate Change Summit in Cancun, Mexico, Malacanang has finally acceded to the request of civil society groups for a meeting to define the administration’s climate change agenda. But Aksyon Klima, the alliance calling for clear policies regarding climate change was unhappy [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 October) – Congress needs to exercise its oversight powers to check “unilateralism” in the Climate Change Commission and enable it to come up with adaptation plans that will make the country less vulnerable to the impacts of climatic alterations, according to House Resolution 514 filed by Cagayan de Oro 2nd [...]

MANILA (MindaNews/20 October) — Climate Change Commissioner Lucille Sering is mad over proposals to set up a coal-fired power plant in her hometown in Surigao City, while actress-representative Lani Mercado-Revilla is sad about the shift to non-renewable energy in Mindanao. Sering, who belongs to a prominent political family in Surigao, said she felt “very mad” [...]

MANILA (MindaNews/19 October) – Members of the civil society coalition Aksyon Klima who met in a national consultation yesterday under the fury of super typhoon Juan which ravaged the northern part of Luzon, called on President Benigno S. Aquino III to make climate change an urgent and vital action area in his government. No less [...]