Philippine environment
Hyped economic progress at the expense of Filipinos
July 25, 2026
The Marcos Jr administration claims economic success, saying that its policies have brought the country to upper middle-income status. But this seeks to hide a deeper reality: the growth model hyped by the government has made a few prosperous at the expense of millions of Filipinos and the environment. The Marcos Jr administration vowed to […]
Oligarchs get rich from environmental plunder
November 23, 2024
IBON Foundation statement for meeting with UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change, Mr. Ian Fry
November 7, 2023
There is an underlying resistance by the Marcos Jr administration to the fundamental changes in strategy and approach required to genuinely address the triple crisis faced by the Filipino people – environmental distress, chronic poverty and inequality, and economic underdevelopment.
Camouflaging climate inaction
June 9, 2023
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Hyping climate spending is hypocritical if environmental destruction continues.
The expensive and harmful ‘Build Better More’
June 2, 2023
The Philippine government has a repetitive narrative when it comes to infrastructure – that it will “revitalize the economy” and “create more jobs” or that the government is “Building more for better lives” — claims so-repeated that they seem like obvious benefits. But history shows that this is not always the case.
Trouble in fishers’ waters
May 4, 2023
Whether or not the government’s rehabilitation efforts will be sufficient to return Laguna de Bay to its former state and capacity as a major source of food, water and livelihood will be tested.
Top 10 companies responsible for half of the Philippine’s residual plastic wastes in the last 5 years
April 22, 2023
The global plastic pollution crisis is mainly due to big corporations’ single-use plastic production. Here are the top 10 corporations behind residual plastic waste in the Philippines, contributing to global warming and posing a significant threat to biodiversity.
Sales of agrochemical corporations in the world in 2021
April 22, 2023
The Philippines was among the first countries to promote the use of inorganic chemicals and input-dependent crop varieties through the Marcos Sr-era Green Revolution. To date, the world’s top-selling agrochemical companies are among the suppliers of chemical and inorganic inputs which the Philippine government continues to usher into domestic farms. This has also partly led […]
