Inside WWF Philippines

A Climate Change Forum was held at the Mandarin Hotel yesterday to discuss the impacts of climate change on the Philippines and courses of action. Although climate change threatens disaster, there are solutions but we have to act now. The solutions present a whole range of opportunities for this country. The cacophony of ideas was overwhelming but a unanimous call for immediate action was the order of the day.

by Lory Tan

I just returned from the second in a series of meetings of WWF’s Energy Task Force. Aside from looking backward at the energy decisions made over the last century, we looked forward 50 years. Many global energy concerns were taken up. Among them, we spoke at length of the characteristics of a new energy paradigm for the planet.

I spoke for the developing world, arguing for the inclusion of approaches that had particular relevance for us.