Last week I was in Manila participating in the opening panel session of the Shell sponsored energy event, Powering Progress Together. The panel included IPCC WG1 Co-chair, Dr. Edvin Aldrian from Indonesia; Philippine Department of Energy Secretary, Hon. Zenaida Y. Monsada; and Tony La Vina,...
Climatic suitability for the mosquitoes that can carry dengue, Zika, and chikungunya is also likely to increase, facilitating further increases in the geographic range and longer transmission seasons, and raising concern for expansion of these diseases into temperate zones, particularly under higher ...
An example of transformational change urgently required in the HKH is enabling mountain women, left behind because of male out-migration, to emerge from being ‘frontline victims’ of climate change impacts to become ‘risk and resource managers’ with control over productive assets (Mishra et al....
Cities around the globe search for solutions to tackle the challenges of climate resilience and energy consumption. The potential of green roofs representing a nature-based solution in mitigating urban heat and related energy consumption at the urban scale is given limited attention. Here we apply a...
Daily temperatures were considered appropriate for the present study since averages over time (e.g., weeks, months, seasons, and years) indicate central tendencies of datasets, while organisms must tolerate the entire range of conditions that they experience. Daily farm measurements of temperature ...
“Methods”). In Panel a, populous mid-latitude cities such as Tokyo have historically large annual per capita load as well as a demand structure that is sensitive to both heating and cooling. Populous tropical developing-country cities such as Manila consume less electricity and exhibit ...
seasons are destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger."It is just one of the multiple climate change impacts taking their toll on the world's poorest people," the report said."An estimated 26 million people have been displaced as a direct result of climate change and each year a ...
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Aira Nase, 37, has been running away from violence all her life. Her mother suffered beatings from her partner and as a young girl, Nase vowed never to be like her. She was proud of raising her three children alone, taking on jobs in Manila, the capital, to provide for them. ...
SOLAIRE, a French word meaning “the breeze from the sun” inspired by the Manila Bay Sunset, is the 1 Billion Integrated Resort & Casino project of Enrique Razon in partnership with Global Gaming Asset Management. The GGAM group is behind some of the...