Since the mid-1990s, the town of Donsol in the Philippines has based its economy around tourists viewing migratory fish called whale sharks. But their numbers have become highly unpredictable in the past decade for reasons still unknown.
As the host of the G20 summit to be held in Osaka this week, Japan is under fire to show “climate leadership” by shaking itself free from coal as it remains one of the world’s biggest financiers of the fossil fuel.
Southeast Asia is where the fight against climate change could be won or lost. Powering its growth story is the single biggest contributor to man-made greenhouse gas emissions—coal.
The regional bloc has just made a landmark pledge to tackle ocean plastic pollution. Green groups have welcomed the move, but say it is flawed. Here's why.
The waste sector in the Philippines has contributed 7 per cent to the country’s total carbon emissions in 2012, making the shift to a minimal-waste consumption model a key part of the country’s emissions reduction goal.
Companies in the Philippines that report on sustainability for mere compliance are missing out on a real opportunity to drive profits and create meaningful societal change, write The Purpose Business's Pat Dwyer and Carissa Pobre.
Asian Development Bank's president has said he cannot rule out funding coal power as there is 'no other option' for some countries. Protesters have called on ADB to draw up a time-bound plan to stop coal financing.
Still reeling from President Rodrigo Duterte's condemnation of climate talks as a ‘waste of time’, activists say the Philippines will be the biggest loser if it pulls out of these forums.
Despite a law banning incineration and the perceived risks of being a stranded asset, a proposal for a US$423 million waste treatment facility is expected to be approved in one of the biggest cities in Metro Manila.
Cities need to at least halve their emissions by 2030, urbanites need to cut their meat consumption and fast-fashion has to be ditched to have a chance of keeping global warming to 1.5°C.
A fossil fuel-derived material that is highly polluting to the environment, plastic is a huge problem in the Philippines, a country that consistently tops rankings for the most vulnerable to climate impacts.
Climate change is the biggest story of our time—and yet it rarely makes headlines. World Bank's Innovate4Climate and Eco-Business brought together journalists from around Asia to learn how to report better on the climate crisis.
Why is climate reporting so hard in developing Asia? To mark World Environment Day, Eco-Business asked journalists in countries feeling the worst effects of the climate crisis about the challenges they face doing their jobs.
The decline in fish catch in Palawan has spurred an interesting shift in society as the community’s women, previously reliant on their husbands’ income, now play a greater role as breadwinners farming seaweed.
