Diesel-powered motor vehicles blamed for most of PH’s air pollution

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A year 2013 news article about black carbon emissions of diesel engine.

Yung jeep dahan dahan dapat mapalitan.

At ban ang pag blank egr.

Naliitan pa nga ako sa tax hike sa diesel. Dapat 12 pesos. Tapos ang gas 5pesos. Kung ano mas madumi mas mataas dapat pollution tax parang sigarilyo. Kasi diesel is like cigarette on steroids, and understatement pa yan.


Diesel-powered motor vehicles blamed for most of PH’s air pollution | Inquirer News

MANILA, Philippines—More than 500,000 diesel-fueled jeepneys, buses, trucks and other vehicles in Metro Manila are responsible for about 70 percent of the total soot or black carbon emissions in the Philippines, according to Climate Change Commissioner Heherson Alvarez.

In a speech before the just-ended 2013 Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi, a copy of which was furnished to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Alvarez also reported that “public utility vehicles, mostly jeepneys, produce 22,000 metric tons of soot emissions per year� in the country.

The conference was held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 in the Indian capital.

Citing Philippine Environment Monitor figures, the former senator and environment secretary noted that “air pollution costs the Philippine economy some $1.5 billion annually, in large part due to diesel vehicles.�

“The World Bank estimates that some 5,000 annual premature deaths make up 12 percent of all deaths in Metro Manila, the highest of any region in the Philippines, due primarily to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases from exposure to air pollution,� he said.

Alvarez said “the country spends over $400 million in direct costs annually — about 0.6 percent of GDP — on health expenses caused by pollution.�

But there is good news, he said. “The Philippine government is inaugurating this year the CCC’s Black Carbon Project.�

“The goal is to modify some 500,000 Metro Manila jeepney and bus engines over a five-year period in order to reduce their black soot emissions,� he said.

Black carbon, he said, “has a climate change effect several thousand times that of carbon dioxide. Fortunately, unlike CO2, the mitigation of black carbon is easy to do. Simply fix the engine so that it burns diesel fuel efficiently at the right fuel-air mixture.�

According to Alvarez, “total investment in the project is estimated at $615 million,� to be sourced mainly from international private sector.

“Using current global warming potential conversion rates, soot emissions from 500,000 jeepneys will be reduced by 80 percent. This will result in the equivalent of at least 25 million metric tons of CO2 reduction. For comparison, this represents nearly 17 percent of the current Kyoto Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the Philippines of 150 million metric tons,� he said.

Earlier, the Climate Change Commission cited a recent scientific study pointing to black carbon as the “second most important, but previously overlooked factor in global warming.�

Studies showed that reducing soot emissions from diesel engines could slow the melting of glaciers in the Arctic more effectively and more economically than any other quick fix, the body said.

It also said that “if governments radically cut levels of black carbon and methane through technologies that are now available, then we could cut the rate of global warming by at least 50 percent.�

This would increase the chance of keeping temperatures rise below 2 degrees Celsius, thereby slowing the advance of climate change by several decades, the CCC added.

[urbanmetal]

It should depend on the engine technology / car that is burning the diesel fuel.

[minicarph]

ang hina ng monopolists greedy businessmen natin, they should take the PUV industry from the poor and yun mga toda toda na yan. laki kita if they will upgrade all PUVs to like Toyota hIace commuters vans na lang,

parang UBER, drivers follow UBer rules and guidelines kung gusto nila kita. ewan ko ba, trillions kita sa public transport ayaw nila mono-polize, from the importation to logistics ng PUVs, pati dashcams required!

Professional drivers should drive professional vehicles not the other way around. if Du30 can EJK drug-crazed people why not enforce this dun sa mga transport group na yan na obviously wala naman layunin kungde bwisetin ang progress na tin by employing third world tactics.

[Lew_Alcindor]

I wont dispute this. Anung sasakyan ba ang madami sa kalsada na round the clock bumibyahe. Jeep at bus na mostly old diesel engines ang nakakabit.

So may clen diesel engines tayo pero sa mga bagong sasakyan lang yun.

[kevinworld]

Politicians are to be blamed. Kahit na uber and grab. Pina babawal. These are for convenience of commuters. Bakit nagbenta pa sila ng crosswind and adventure. Euro4 na nga tayo. And they just sit down to collect taxes without doing anything. Palaging kulang daw ang buwis, dahil billions of gold are transferred to Thailand.

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Bandila news (feb 23, 2017)

Hangin sa ayala underpass at edsa pasay rotonda area, itinuturing pinakamarumi

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dami ko nababasa sa facebook ang dumi daw hangin sa baguio city.

Ano ba asahan nyo sa malamig na lugar tapos hindi pa maulan.

Kaya nga ako love ko ulan para malinis yung usok ng desel engine. Alam nyo hate ko makina na yan.