Global warming threatens to submerge parts of Manila and wipe out entire islands, a conservation group warned, as it brought its campaign to cut carbon dioxide emissions to the Philippines.
"The Philippines is extremely vulnerable to the ravages of climate change," the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said. "Food and freshwater shortages, receding coastlines and an increase in political and economic turmoil is the bleak picture that climate change paints for the country."
The WWF is now negotiating with several companies in the country to adopt energy-efficient saving measures in their operations to help in the global effort to cut CO2 emissions, the leading cause of global warming.
The WWF is proposing that firms work at increasing their efficiency in operations at low cost, purchasing power from renewable energy sources, integrating next-generation efficiency measures into the design of buildings, factories and products, among other things.
Southeast Asian nations, including the Philippines, are the third largest emitters of carbon among developing countries.
