Energy Development Corporation, BenCab team up for the environment

Energy Development Corporation, BenCab team up for the environment

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L-R: Lopez Group Foundation Inc. president Cedie Lopez Vargas, artist BenCab, LGFI Operations head Angela Lopez Guingona and EDC CSR manager Rei MedranoEnergy Development Corporation (EDC) and National Artist BenCab (Benedicto Cabrera) have joined hands in saving and propagating endangered premium native trees.

With the University of the Philippines-Baguio and the Philippine Society for the Study of Nature, EDC and BenCab Art Foundation Inc. (BAFI) planted 100 seedlings of 18 endangered tree species at BenCab’s farm in Tuba, Benguet recently.

The tree-planting activity is part of EDC’s BINHI: A Greening Legacy project, a nationwide reforestation and biodiversity preservation project to arrest forest degradation, contribute to climate change mitigation and provide sustainable livelihood for forest communities.

BAFI, EDC’s 97th partner for the project’s Tree for the Future module, will host the permanent planting area within the eco-trail of BenCab Museum and share in the responsibility of implementing the long-term protection, monitoring and maintenance of the planted trees until these have grown into mother trees.

Launched in 2008, BINHI is focused on bringing back highvalue but fast-dwindling native

trees such as yakal, tindalo, kamagong, mangkono and ipil.

Rei Medrano, EDC manager for CSR, said: “We source the few remaining seedlings of endangered premium native trees and grow them into mother trees in planting sites where they can

be best protected and nurtured…. These mother trees will be used to propagate more seedlings for transplant all over the country.”

EDC has already rescued 85 premium endangered tree species out of the 96 target priority species with the help of its BINHI partners nationwide, Medrano added. (By Toni Nieva)

Energy Sustainability

“We must accept that we have to make hard choices in this generation to bring about real changes for future generations and the planet. Politicians and the industry must get real.”

This is quoted from the report released by the World Energy Council (WEC) in partnership with the global consulting firm Oliver Wyman.  The report titled, World Energy Trilemma: Time to get real – the case for sustainable energy policy gives a overview of energy sustainability and methodology to achieve this.  

The three noted dimensions of energy sustainability

The World Energy Council’s definition of energy sustainability is based on three core dimensions - energy security, social equity, and environmental impact mitigation. 

The development of stable, affordable, and environmentally-sensitive energy systems defies simple solutions. These three goals constitute a ‘trilemma’, entailing complex interwoven links between public and private actors, governments and regulators, economic and social factors, national resources, environmental concerns, and individual behaviors.