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First Philippine Holdings Corp. said its board approved a new share buyback program that gives the Lopez-led conglomerate up to P5 billion to repurchase its own shares over the next two years while also declaring P467 million in cash dividends.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has activated all its units to scale up El Niño preparations, as DOST-PAGASA warns the event could turn very strong by late 2026 and persist into mid-2027.

The Philippines has reaffirmed its 75 percent emission reduction and avoidance target in its 2026 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), laying out concrete plans to curb short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs)—or “superpollutants”—at the Superpollutant Action Summit in New York. Held alongside the 81st UN General Assembly and organized by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, the summit gathered global leaders to speed action on pollutants that drive rapid warming and health harm.

The electric vehicle has arrived in the Philippines with a promise familiar to anyone who has spent an afternoon crawling along EDSA: less dependence on gasoline, quieter motoring, and a little less money disappearing into the fuel tank. It’s an appealing proposition. The only complication is that the Filipino road has never been particularly interested in making life easy for anyone.