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$400 billion of planned petrochemical outlay at risk on exaggerated plastics demand
Carbon Tracker Initiative, 04 September 2020
Key Quotes
Remove the plastic pillar holding up the future of the oil
industry, and the whole narrative of rising oil demand collapses.
Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker Energy Strategist and report lead
author.
There are huge benefits in the change from the current linear
system to a more circular one. You can have all the functionality
of plastics but at half the capital cost, half the amount of
feedstock, 700,000 additional jobs and 80% less plastic pollution.
Yoni Shiran, lead author of Breaking the Plastic Wave
Senate agri panel seeks declaration of nationwide state of emergency amid ASF problem By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published March 9, 2021 12:55pm The Senate agriculture committee is calling on the Department of Agriculture (DA) to recommend to President Rodrigo Duterte the declaration of a state of emergency in the entire country amid the threat of the African swine fever (ASF). During its meeting on Tuesday, the panel approved the motion of Senator Francis Pangilinan calling for a declaration of state of emergency in the island of Luzon in light of the ASF threat. We move that [the] DA recommend to the Office of the President the declaration of a state of emergency in Luzon so that public funds may be realigned to address the state of emergency, he said.
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Pork producers and other agricultural stakeholders are urging the government to create a task force against smuggled agricultural and frozen goods, which according to them have been flooding Philippine markets.
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