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Environmental Coalition Green Convergence held the 345th installment of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum last December 21, 2018 at Kamayan Restaurant, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. Resource speakers included forester Amie Rabang of the Forest Management Bureau and Liberty Talastas-Bituin, a member of the indigenous people in the Cordilleras. They discussed Communal Forest and the status of its implementation. Rabang stated that “there are 649 assigned communal forests all over the Philippines designated through Memorandum of Agreements between LGUs and the DENR.” “In our experience in the Cordilleras, several areas not declared......
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Global warming, ‘urgent concern’ – Green Convergence
Environmental Coalition Green Convergence held the 344th installment of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum about the 1.5°C Special Report on climate change of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on November 16, 2018 (Friday) at Kamayan Restaurant, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. “The report highlights a number of climate change impacts that could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C, or more,” explained Prof. Leoncio Amadore from the UP...
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‘Cheaper fuels may impact public health’
October 23, 2018 at 09:30 pm by Rex Arcadio R. San Diego II via Manila Standard Is cheaper fuel the answer? While there is a clamor for more affordable fuels to address inflation, it might be wise for the government and the public to consider its health impacts. Speakers and participants to the recent Kamayan para sa Kalikasan Forum in Quezon City were one in this conclusion. Environment Undersecretary Juan Miguel T. Cuna noted that while...
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Talking about troubled waters
By Patricia Bianca S. Taculao via Agriculture Monthly Life in the Philippines also comes from the sea that surrounds the archipelago. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Philippines ranked 8th among the major fish producing countries in the world in 2012. We had a total production of 3.1 million tonnes of fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and other aquatic animals. But the country’s ranking has gradually decreased to 12th with the...
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Monsters of today: lessons learned from forum on greenhouse gases
By Tricia Buendia, Haribon Membership, edited by Haribon Membership Visibility Committee via Haribon Foundation Haribon member Tricia Buendia shares this reflection after attending the Kamayan Forum on Philippine NDCs to reduce global greenhouse gases with Green Convergence last June 2018. Every year monsters visit and haunt the Philippines. We name each one, anticipating its destruction on the country. Each visiting monster passes through, devouring souls and resources. These monsters are our typhoons. Typhoons get stronger and leave devastating impacts. Though...
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Green Convergence forum takes on Philippine fisheries
Representatives from the National Coastal Watch Council, Oceana Philippines, Pangisda Pilipinas and the Department of Interior and Local Government discussed the state of Philippines fisheries and talked about ways to solve its immediate concerns. Environmental Coalition Green Convergence held the 342nd session of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum on September 21, 2018 (Friday) at Kamayan Restaurant, Greenhills, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. The recent approval by Agriculture Secretary Piñol of the importation of...
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Environmental groups decry return of “monsters”
Environmental advocates convened for a press conference to call for the stop of the return of environmental monsters in the Philippines. Environmental Coalition Green Convergence held another installment of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum on August 17, 2018 (Friday) at Max’s Restaurant, Quezon Memorial Circle, Quezon City. As a prelude to the upcoming annual Green SONA (State of Nature Assessment) held in Baguio City on August 20 with the theme “Environmental...
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Forum warns vs foreign resource ownership
August 04, 2018 at 10:00 pm by Rex Arcadio R. San Diego II via Manila Standard Filipinos should be more careful and cautious concerning environmental conservation contained in the proposed Federalism constitution. Participants in the recent Kamayan para sa Kalikasan Forum at the Kamayan Edsa came to this conclusion after a discussion on how the proposed Federal government affect the Philippines’ natural resources. As lawyer Galahad Pe-Benito of Green Research noted that the Writ of Kalikasan is...
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Kamayan Forum scrutinizes Cha-Cha’s implications to Philippine environment
Environmental coalition Green Convergence held another installment of their monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum last July 20, 2018 at the Kamayan Restaurant EDSA, Mandaluyong City. The forum tackled the provisions on the environment in the proposed federal government under the Duterte administration. Atty. Galahad Pe Benito of Greenresearch discussed the said provisions one by one and related them to the already established environmental laws that we have. Leon Dulce of Kalikasan People’s Network on the...
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Kamayan emphasizes forests’ role to greenhouse gas reduction
JUNE 15, 2018, Mandaluyong City – The 339th installment of the monthly Kamayan Para Sa Kalikasan Forum tackled the sustainable nationally determined contributions (NDCs) of the Philippines in its commitment to help reduce the global greenhouse gases as per the Paris Agreement of 2016. Dr. Rowena Boquiren of the Haribon Foundation pointed out that the massive degradation of forests along with the rapid construction of greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as coal power plants and...
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