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ICLEI network unites in Montréal, releases new vision for the urban era
At the ICLEI World Congress in Montréal, the ICLEI Council announced a new strategic vision for tackling the development challenges of today’s urban era. The vision, outlined in the ICLEI Montréal Commitment, scales up ambition for sustainable development and charts a path towards systemic urban change. The commitment also formally retires the ICLEI 10 urban […]
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ACB chief pushes for marine biodiversity protection, conservation in Southeast Asia
In Photo: Asean Centre for Biodiversity Executive Director Theresa Mundita S. Lim (center) was recognized for her exemplary efforts in the protection of Tañon Strait Protected Seascape as the then-director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Biodiversity Management Bureau. This article first appeared on Business Mirror. The Asean Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) is pushing […]
Continue readingClimate change could heighten risk of global food production ‘shocks’
This article first appeared on Eco-Business.com. The 1972-74 food price crisis is the stuff of policy legend. At a time when grain prices had been declining for decades, the global price of wheat tripled in the space of just three years. The trigger was a poor wheat harvest throughout the major breadbaskets of southeast Ukraine and southwest Russia, ravaged […]
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Climate change to slash Cambodia’s productivity: report
This article first appeared on Khmer Times. Even if current levels of spending on climate change adaptation are maintained, rising temperatures in the Kingdom will continue to impact economic performance, reducing the country’s GDP by almost 10 percent by the year 2050, a report released Tuesday has found. Cambodia’s GDP in 2015 was already 4.6 […]
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Sustainable tourism key to Malaysian marine park’s ambitious plans
The boat docks at a rickety pier and our guide leaps over the side to begin up a steep path cutting through tropical jungle. It is approaching midday and, shielded from the cooling sea breeze, the air is becoming thick and heavy. Ahead, our escort of M16-wielding soldiers (a formality, I’ve been told) clambers up […]
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Pinoys urged to reduce meat consumption to help the environment
This article first appeared on ABS-CBN News. MANILA — Here’s something to chew on: a chunk of climate emissions is caused by what we eat. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock process is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems.” Meanwhile, […]
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