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Since generation makes up roughly 60 percent of electricity bills, consumers are directly bearing the increase.
“Unspent resources should support relocation outside danger zones. But livelihoods can’t simply be uprooted, so authorities must guarantee access between new sites and work. Without that, people will return."
From Duterte to Marcos Jr., Manila Bay has been sacrificed for profit
A yellow alert over the Visayas grid yesterday once again shows how weak and unstable the Philippine power system is. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) issues the alert when power reserves fall below the required contingency level.
“Behind staged cleanups and media spectacles, the state has actively supported environmentally destructive projects, foremost of which are reclamation schemes."
Aside from financial struggles, the Anoling evacuees are facing numerous challenges, including inadequate sanitation facilities.
Bamboo poles, scrap wood, and tarpaulins are simple materials turned into symbols of resistance.
"The Philippines has about 120,000 RE workers and will need an additional 350,000 by 2030 to meet its clean energy targets."
For more than a year, Isla Verde’s dredging operated amid complaints from fisherfolk and coastal residents who stressed that their sources of income and safety were affected.
In a statement, Pamalakaya pointed out that tens of thousands of fishing families were affected by renewable energy projects that the Department of Energy (DOE) granted permits.
Philippine studies like Bagtasa’s give survivors firm local evidence as they confront a global polluter.
"We host dams, geothermal plants, and windmills, but we don’t even get electricity. The power is used for industries and businesses, not for our communities."
While these communities grapple with the fallout of extraction, Southeast Asia is racing to an electric?vehicle future.
Because ancestral lands are rich in natural resources, the extreme militarization is driven by corporate greed.
Authorities prevented fisherfolk from holding a symbolic action outside the court, underscoring what CEED’s Gerry Arances later described as the difficulty marginalized sectors face in making their voices heard.
“We know that COP will not solve the climate crisis especially when the governments are offering false solutions to the negotiating table."
Capitalist countries continue to dodge their responsibility for the climate crisis, refusing to pay up while pushing market schemes that allow them to keep polluting.
“What drowned Cebu was not just rain, it was the flood of corruption, of negligence, of a government that has long abandoned its duty to the people.”
Health systems are challenged to deliver universal health coverage even at current levels of warming, with the majority of countries (108/194) experiencing worsening or no significant improvement in service coverage since the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015.
“What we have been calling for, as part of the Palestinian movement for more than 20 years, is to hold Israel — and all those who support it — accountable for the crimes being committed."
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