Latest in climate resilienceFormer National Youth Commission (NYC) chairman Cesar Chavez is proposing a sweeping institutional reform that would transform the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) into a nationwide Youth Environmental Corps (YEC), offering it as an alternative to calls to abolish the youth body. Chavez said that…
Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso wants the drainage master plan in motion fast, stressing that the next generation of Manileños deserves to grow up in a city no longer crippled by constant floods. On Thursday, September 18, Domagoso personally handed over the city’s long-term…
Much like the floodwaters, public anger is overflowing over the Philippines’ failed flood control projects. Every downpour brings not just clogged roads but renewed outrage over flood control projects that have swallowed billions yet delivered little. Singapore, however, shows what long-term…
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