QUEZON CITY --- World Food Expo (WOFEX), the biggest and most effective food show in the Philippines today, will bring together distinguished speakers, personalities, and organizations in the area of food and agriculture industry to discuss food sustainability and agricultural development as one of the possible solutions against climate change.

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For a church official, the country abiding by its commitment to climate agreement is more important than the number of delegates that it will send to climate conferences.

“What is important is the serious commitment of the government to abide by its commitment to climate agreement,” Father Edu Gariguez, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines National Secretariat for Social Action-Justice and Peace, said in an interview.

“The government committed to reducing 70% carbon emission in its INDC (Intended nationally determined contributions) for the Conference of Parties or COP 21, yet it is opening more coal-fired power plants in the country,” he added.

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MANILA, Philippines – Only electric passenger tricycles (e-tricycles) should be seen plying the streets of Boracay by August this year when the Malay town government in Aklan enforces the phaseout of motorized public tricycles in the island.

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