Op-eds

2023

Bali and Ifugao: Sustaining traditions in indigenous rice farming, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, 10 October. (33)

2022

How Southeast Asia governs climate change: Multiple contexts, multiple tensions, Asia Global Online: Asian Perspectives, 21 April. (32)

Energy in Southeast Asia: Pursuing Energiewende in the region, Energy Transition: The Global Energiewende, 20 April. (31)

2021

A post-COVID-19 green stimulus for PHThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 9 April. (30)

2019

Towards an energy-secured ASEAN: beyond conventional patternsASEAN Focus, Issue 5, October. (29)

2018

The dreamers and weavers of South Cotabato, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, 19 July. (28)

Nature’s place in PH ConstitutionThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 6 February. (27)

Mayon, geoengineering and climate changeThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 30 January. (26)

2017

A case for an Asean Energy UnionThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 14 November. (25)

EVs and the future of Philippine mobilityThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 5 September. (24)

Energy 4.0: opportunities, risks for the PhilippinesThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 12 August. (23)

Thriving in an age of wrenching climate change, The Jakarta Post, 30 June 2017. (22)

Resilient urban systemsThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 24 June. (21)

Kidapawan, climate change and conflictThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 27 March. (20)

Climate-proofing Southeast Asia, The Jakarta Post, 22 March. (19)

Lake Sebu’s coalThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 March. (18)

Rooftop solar revolutionThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 1 March. (17)

Stranded assetsThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 1 February. (16)

The whale and the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, The Manila Times, 26 January. (15)

Making Southeast Asia resilient to climate change, Bangkok Post, 26 January. (14)

Paving a renewable energy pathway, The Jakarta Post, 22 January. (13)

A Philippine ‘Energiewende,’ The Philippine Daily Inquirer, 18 January. (12)

Paving the way to renewable energy in Southeast Asia, Bangkok Post, 11 January. (11)

The future of Philippine energyThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 7 January. (10)

2016

Localized energy transitionsThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 8 November. (9)

The picture Yolanda (Typhoon Haiyan) providedThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11 October. (8)

What the Philippines can learn from Costa RicaThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 28 September. (7)

Nuclear Philippines is a future full of costly risksThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 12 September. (6)

The case for a Philippine transition to solar energyThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, 6 September. (5)

2015

WWII treaty of ‘unconditional surrender’: a model to enforce national climate pledgesThe Conversation, 9 December. Syndicated in The Ecologist. (4)

Upping the ante: thinking about post-Paris climate strategies that measure upRoutledge Environment & Sustainability Posts, 4 December. (3)

2010

It’s all about energy, Japan Today, 22 November. (2)

Envisioning a post-fossil investment era, Japan Today, 24 March. (1)