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The Philippine Green Building Council (PHILGBC) is a national non-stock, non-profit organization that promotes the sharing of knowledge on green practices to the property industry to ensure a sustainable environment. It was organized to serve as a single voice in the promotion of holistic and market-based green building practices, to facilitate ...
The Philippine Senate Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, Innovation and Futures Thinking is a standing committee of the Senate of the Philippines. This committee was created during the 18th Congress on September 3, 2019, through Senate Resolution No. 9.
The Philippine House Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, or House Sustainable Development Goals Committee is a standing committee of the Philippine House of Representatives. Originally designated as a special committee , it was elevated into a standing committee on March 10, 2020.
The Philippines is sometimes considered the most dangerous country for environmental activists. [67] [68] According to environmental watchdog Global Witness, at least 30 land and environmental defenders were killed in the Philippines in 2018, many of whom were in conflict with private business groups. [69]
The Philippines has long had long-term structural problems that interfere with sustainable economic development. The country has been dominated by a sequence of growth spurts, brief and mediocre, followed by sharp to very-sharp, severe, and extended downturns—a cycle that came to be known as the boom-bust cycle .
Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy; Harnessing Solar Heat; Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit; Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy; Outlook On Renewable Energy In America; Powering Planet Earth – Energy Solutions for the Future; Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (2011) by Amory Lovins
March 16 – The Philippines wins the Guinness World Record for the largest human lung formation, with 5,596 participants attending an event to mark World Tuberculosis Day at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila. [413] March 22 – Maria Gigante is crowned Universal Woman 2024 in Cambodia. [414]
A sustainable business, or a green business, is an enterprise which has (or aims to have) a minimal negative impact or potentially a positive effect on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that attempts to meet the triple bottom line.