It’s been a week since the International Court of Justice issued its historic advisory opinion on the climate crisis.

The case started with young students from Vanuatu, a small island state located in the South Pacific Ocean. More notably, a young Filipina climate activist, Nicole Ponce, had helped from the very beginning.

In this interview, environment editor Jee Geronimo and multimedia reporter Iya Gozum talk to Ponce, global advocacy lead of World’s Youth for Climate Justice, about the implications of the World Court’s advisory opinion on the youth, the movement, and the state of the planet.

https://www.rappler.com/environment/the-green-report-filipina-climate-activist-international-court-justice/

Negotiators from around the world will come together this August in Geneva, Switzerland, in hopes of finally hammering out a landmark agreement on how to beat the plastic crisis.

For this The Green Report episode, environment editor Jee Geronimo and multimedia reporter Iya Gozum talk to Michelle Reyes of Healthcare Without Harm and Jam Lorenzo of BAN Toxics about what’s at stake in Geneva and how ambitious negotiators have to be to push out a truly historic deal.

https://www.rappler.com/environment/the-green-report-can-world-beat-plastic-pollution/

In this episode of The Green Report, Rappler environment editor Jee Geronimo and reporter Iya Gozum talk to Neil Aldrin Mallari, chief scientist at the Center for Conservation Innovations Philippines. Mallari shares his experience working with communities and the many ways he continues to learn from them.https://www.rappler.com/environment/the-green-report-future-conservation/

Marine conservation is both work and passion for Filipina conservationist Anna Oposa.

In this The Green Report interview, environment editor Jee Geronimo and reporter Iya Gozum sit down with Oposa to talk about the past decade of conservation work, the tempering of idealism that comes with time, and her love for puns and language.

https://www.rappler.com/environment/the-green-report-episode-saving-seas-philippines-anna-oposa/

The start of a new year often inspires many of us to take up a new hobby or two. Some people want to get their creative juices flowing, while others want to move more. Running is probably one of the most accessible forms of exercise that you can start with. If you have a pair of running shoes and a not-so-busy road to run on, you’re good to go. In this first The Green Report episode of 2025, Rappler environment editor Jee Geronimo and reporter Iya Gozum make the case for running not just as an exercise but also as an opportunity to take up space outdoors. https://www.rappler.com/environment/the-green-report-episode-joy-running/

Tony La Viña wrote his memoir Ransomed by Love as a way to say goodbye when he was diagnosed with cancer.

But as life would have it, La Viña is now living through illness and promoting the book. Ransomed by Love was launched last November 29 at Ateneo de Manila University.

We sit down with the human rights and environmental lawyer to talk about his new book, the cathartic experience of writing about his life while awaiting death, and his newfound love for Taylor Swift.

https://www.rappler.com/philippines/2024-bar-exams-stories-passers-no-deadline-dreams/

Delegates walked away from the recently concluded United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) with a $300-billion new climate finance goal that will be mobilized by developed countries. After a two-week coverage of the summit, Rappler’s Jee Geronimo and Iya Gozum discuss the outcome, the response towards the deal, and the work to be done as the world looks forward to next year’s COP30 set in Belém, Brazil.

https://www.rappler.com/environment/the-green-report-cop29-outcome/

Metropolitan areas in the Philippines are sinking, a recent study from the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute (UPRI) and the National Institute of Geological Sciences found.

In this episode of The Green Report, Rappler environment editor Jee Geronimo and reporter Iya Gozum talk to Audrei Anne Ybañez and Jolly Sulapas, researchers from the UPRI, about land subsidence in the Greater Manila Area, Metro Cebu, Metro Davao, Metro Iloilo, and Legazpi City.

https://www.rappler.com/environment/the-green-report-episode-why-philippine-cities-sinking/