With the new emergence of challenges related to basic needs and access to: food, water, and energy, sustainable sources of each of these needs to be the focus of  nations around the world. The Philippines ranks in the top five countries at  risk of the effects of climate variability in the past few decades. Namely,  the country has routinely been impacted by catastrophic weather impacting the  lives of its citizens. Geothermal energy is seen as the best opportunity for  the nation to decrease its use of the current primary source of energy  production: coal.

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The Energy Development Corporation is a conglomerate whose main objective  is to increase the use of geothermal technology in the Philippines. This past  year, the EDC reported a carbon footprint of 790,000 carbon dioxide  equivalent, effectively only one-fourth of the carbon absorption of the trees  in the nation. While not a silver bullet, the unique geography of the nation  provides great opportunity to harness available geothermal energy stores to  reduce the needs of coal-fired power plants across the Philippines.