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                    [Title] => The challenge of the Paris Agreement
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In the wake of the landmark Paris Agreement, nations must start buckling down to reduce emissions rapidly to achieve an ambitious net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of this century.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-11 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347780 [AuthorName] => Heherson T. Alvarez [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 790332 [Title] => Taking stock and planning the use of precious water resource [Summary] =>

World Water Day is held annually on March 22 as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 343570 [Title] => DENR urged to cancel Rosemoor’s permit to mine Biak-na-Bato [Summary] => The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is being urged to cancel the mining permit issued to Rosemoor Mining and Development Corp. (RMDC) which operates in the Biak-na-Bato national park in Bulacan.

Heherson T. Alvarez, founding chairman of the environmental organization EarthSavers Movement and former Secretary of the DENR, alleged that RMDC which was granted a mineral production sharing agreement (MPSA) in 2002, has been illegally mining inside the mineral reservation park.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 248943 [Title] => What people must know during these elections [Summary] => Only last month, Transparency International, an international anti-corruption organizatiion, came out with a list of the most corrupt leaders in the world. The Philippines has two presidents in the list. Ferdinand E. Marcos who ranked as the second most corrupt in the list and Joseph E. Estrada who was number 10. Now, as pointed out by independent senatorial candidate Herherson T. Alvarez, their heirs are supporting the candidacy of Fernand Poe, Jr. In Ilocos. [DatePublished] => 2004-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235979 [Title] => Will overseas voters be disfranchised? [Summary] => We are glad that former Sen. Heherson T. Alvarez has called the attention of the Commission on Election and the Department of Foreign Affairs to take immediate action to insure that our overseas that our overseas workers who had registered under the absentee voting program will be able to participate in this coming May 10 elections. According to the DFA’s Overseas Voting Secretariat, 364,000 overseas Filipino workers registered to vote, but only 293,173 of them were actually qualified.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230932 [Title] => December is Protect- the-Waters Month [Summary] => The month of December is dedicated to two things: Human Rights and protection of our waters. For this purpose the Department of Energy and Natural Resources issued Administrative Order (DAO) No. 17 that provided the guidelines for delineating and delimiting municipal waters all over the archipelago as provided by Republic Act 8550 of 1998 known as the Fisheries Code of the Philippines. [DatePublished] => 2003-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 101809 [Title] => Tomorrow GMA announces her environmental agenda - ROSES AND THORNS by Alejandro R. Roces [Summary] => Tomorrow, the Philippines will join the rest of the world in celebrating International Earth Day 2001. President Macapagal-Arroyo will open the celebration, the focus of which will be on the International "Clean Energy" campaign. Man, as we know, is the world’s greatest enemy of the environment. US Journalist Clifford D. Sirak wrote about how world pollution started. He said, "The emergence of intelligence, I am convinced, tends to unbalance the ecology. In other words, intelligence is the great polluter. [DatePublished] => 2001-04-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 102379 [Title] => President GMA endorses use of media for social change - ROSES AND THORNS by Alejandro R. Roces [Summary] => If there is anything that brought the downfall of the Estrada administration, it is the fact that, thanks to television, the whole nation witnessed the impeachment trial. The most beneficial lesson that we can learn from that experience is that radio and television can be the most potent instruments for nation-building. We have been wasting these two priceless resources. For years, radio, films and television programs have been used almost exclusively for programs that expouse lewd sex and senseless violence. In short, they are used to project the wrong values. [DatePublished] => 2001-02-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 102370 [Title] => Radio and TV to be tools for national progress - ROSES AND THORNS by Alejandro R. Roces [Summary] => The biggest lesson that we have learned from the impeachment trial is that television coverage can make all the difference. Whoever imagined that the impeachment trial would even be more popular than the Mexican telenovela Rosalinda?

Now we were very pleased to hear that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will keynote the National Soap Opera Summit for Social Change at the House of Representatives today. We have not been making proper use of our radio television stations. They have been used almost solely for vulgar entertainment.

In the words of Isabela Rep. [DatePublished] => 2001-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103123 [Title] => US senators to look into Clark-Subic toxic question - Roses And Thorns byAlejandro R. Roces [Summary] =>

Sen. Sergio Osmeña III has confirmed that two US senators -- Richard Lugar and Daniel Inouye -- are coming to the Philippines to look into the toxic waste contamination that Americans left behind in two former US-run military bases in Central Luzon.

Last Monday, six-year old Crizel Jane Valencia was buried in the Madapdap resettlement, a victim of leukemia that she acquired from the chemicals that have polluted the area's water supply. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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