Philippines: The Right Energy Partnership with Indigenous Peoples (REP) Stands with Indigenous...
Bulu, Basan’s childhood home, is now one of many villages endangered by the Pan Pacific Renewable Power Philippines Corporation’s (PPRPPC) P19.8-billion 150-megawatt Gened 1 dam project.
Mapua University Manila student, Carvey Ehren Maigue was named the first ever winner of the James Dyson Award for Global Sustainability.
Several indigenous organizations in four countries have inked a partnership with the Indigenous Peoples Major Group (IPMG) through its Right Energy Partnership initiative, launched in July 2018, to promote a human rights-based approach to renewable energy development in their indigenous territories.
For more than five decades, Indigenous communities in the northern Philippines have pushed back against the planned construction of hydropower dams on the Chico River system.
In a resolution signed on January 15, the Isnag people of Kabugao, Apayao in Northern Philippines, reiterated their opposition to the proposed hydroelectric power project (HEPP) of the Pan Pacific Renewable Power Philippines Corporation (PPRPC).