Coal dying or dead in PH?
The Philippines can either attract $20 billion in renewable energy investments over the next 10 years, or be left with $20 billion of stranded [coal] assets, IEEFA energy finance analyst Sara Jane Ahmed said on ANC's Dateline Philippines on March 6, 2020. (Reporting from Dateline Philippines/ ANC)
Philippines urged to include climate change in development plans
Published by ABS-CBN News on July 18, 2019 The Philippines must incorporate climate change in its long-term development plans, an economist from the University of the Philippines said on Thursday. Dr. Toby Monsod of the UP School of Economics said climate change poses serious threats to a country's economic growth. "Rethink the Medium Term Development Plan. Rethink or review the parameters used to make that plan, and to ensure that new information, climate information, which is actually not new, is properly integrated," Monsod said in an interview with ANC.