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Communities Demand ADB to Phase out Dirty Energy
Communities and advocates rally against policies that would lock Asia into polluting energy projects and deepen climate inequities Mandaluyong City, Philippines – 14 August 2025 – Today, environmental advocates and community members gathered outside the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters…
Southeast Asian Governments are Called to Put the Environment and Health First at the Plastics Treaty Negotiation
Negotiators are Trading Away our Health and our Future Generations in Favour of an Easy Path to a Weak Treaty 11 August 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – The negotiation towards a global plastics treaty to end plastic pollution reaches a point…
Plastics Treaty Negotiations: Protecting Health Must Take Center Stage
Geneva, Switzerland – Midway through the Plastics Treaty negotiations scheduled to end this Thursday August 14, IPEN notes that concerns for the threats to human health from toxic plastic chemicals are widely shared by delegates as momentum grows for a…
EcoWaste Coalition Urges Government to Craft Product Safety Standards for Stainless Steel Water Tumblers
Group Presses for Regulatory Action to Prevent Dumping of Non-compliant Products 11 August 2025, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition urged government regulators to craft product safety standards for reusable stainless steel water tumblers after finding violative levels…
Plastics Treaty Negotiations In Peril Over Process
Member States and Chair Fail to Act in Stocktake Plenary Geneva, Switzerland – Plastic pollution is accumulating in our water, air, food, and bodies while the majority of Member States continue to allow themselves to be bullied by a small group…
The House of Horrors
A Clinical, Ethical, and Human Call from Al-Shifa Collective Chronicle from the Epicenter of Gaza’s Health Crisis “I can’t go on” “It was like a ‘March 11’ every single day,” repeats Dr. Raúl Incertis, a Spanish anesthesiologist recently returned from…
ADB’s Energy Policy is Rushing Toward the Wrong Side of History
by Jason Weiner, Executive & Legal Director, Bank Climate Advocates & Nazareth Del Pilar, Just Transitions Advocacy Officer, NGO Forum on ADB Asian Development Bank (ADB) calls itself the “climate bank of Asia and the Pacific.” But with its proposed…
GAIA Joins Call to Member States at Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5.2): Keep Your Promise, Fix the Process, End Plastic Pollution
Geneva, Switzerland – Four days into the final Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, we are not on track to deliver a treaty that will protect people and nature. Enough is enough; something must change. We are joining the voices of waste pickers,…
EcoWaste Coalition Tags 1,146 Online Listings for Mercury and Mercury-Added Products
(Watchdog group presses regulators to issue immediate takedown orders) The environmental health and justice group EcoWaste Coalition urged government regulators to stop the uncontrolled online trade of mercury and mercury-added products by actively enforcing Republic Act No. 11967, or the…
Banned Mercury-Laden Skin Whitening Creams Still Sold in Pasay City
Toxics Watchdog BAN Toxics has issued a public health warning over the continued sale of banned skin-lightening products (SLPs) containing toxic mercury in beauty shops in Baclaran, Pasay City. The group is urging the local government to take immediate enforcement…
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