Category: Sustina Lab
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ASEAN needs to harmonize its carbon frameworks. Where do we begin?
On February 24, over 100 non-state actors across business, finance, knowledge institutions, and civil society organizations gathered at the Asian Institute of Management for the ASEAN Climate Action Dialogue. Here,…
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Pasig City to build floating parks with $1 million Bloomberg grant
The City of Pasig was awarded USD 1 million as a winner of the The Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge to create floating parks, which will transform underused rivers into green…
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These founders are building climate solutions from the bottom up
The Philippines is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. The people most exposed to that reality—displaced families, women in far-flung areas, communities living near plastic-choked rivers, farmers without climate-resilient…
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Design meets diskarte: Inside Tropikalye’s archives
Tropikalye is a crowdsourced online index of the Philippines’ unconventional design decisions by Manila-based visual artist Nice Buenaventura. Described as the accidental intersection between aesthetics and the everyday, Tropikalye reveals…
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Notes from the Philippine Decarbonization Forum: ‘Credible climate action requires credible data’
On February 9, 2026, the first Philippine Decarbonization Forum took place at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), drawing over 100 attendees from the public and private sector. The forum…
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Read the full discussion: DENR, SEC, business leaders weigh in on carbon market readiness
On February 8, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) released a national readiness roadmap for the voluntary forest carbon market, setting the stage for how the Philippines might…
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This captain knows where his trash goes. Do you?
When you take out the trash, do you ever think about its journey? For Daniel Scheler, the answer has always been yes. Growing up in East Germany, he was hailed…
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Explainer: How will the Binaliw landfill collapse affect policies on solid waste and incineration?
On January 8, 2026, the sanitary landfill in Binaliw village, Cebu City, collapsed, bringing down a mountain of waste on the 100 workers on site. When rescue and search operations…
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After Antipolo mayor joins petition, VENA Group claims it is ‘not building wind turbines in karst areas’
Antipolo City Mayor Jun Jun Ynares III has formally asked DENR Secretary Raphael Lotilla and Vena Group Philippines Country Head Samrinder Nehria to reconsider the placement of proposed wind turbines in…
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An update from Carbon Majors, the database that informed the Philippines’ climate petition
New data from the Carbon Majors report reveals that global carbon emissions continue to rise despite pledges to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius—and that these emissions are becoming…