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DENR-IX
RED Arleigh J. Adorable
deliver
his message during the
special
convocation program on
Climate
Change Consciousness
Week.
(Photo provided)
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This weeklong event
is in compliance with the Memorandum Circular No. 35 signed on 14 August 2012
by Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa, Jr., authorized by President Benigno
C. Aquino III pursuant to Proclamation No. 1776 series of 2008.
The Proclamation aims to create awareness on global
warming and climate change by pursuing broad and intensive information and
educational campaign to secure the collective cooperation of private and public
sectors at all levels in finding solutions to this concern. The Proclamation calls on all agencies,
government offices, and instrumentalities to collaborate in coordination with
the private sector and in liaison with the United Nations family to conduct and
participate in relevant activities.
Climate Change is a
change of climate attributed directly or indirectly to human activities that
alter the composition of the global temperature, in addition to natural climate
variability observed over comparable time periods. (UNFCC)
Climate Change has
adverse impacts on agriculture and food security, human health, biological
diversity and ecosystems. In the
Philippines, there are already trends of increasing number of hot days and warm
nights. Both maximum and minimum
temperatures are generally warmer. Other
extreme weather/climate events like intense rains and droughts have been seen
to be more frequent. (Climate Change: Coping w/ the changes)
The following
are activities lined up for the
observance of the said event: preparation of press release, display of CCC streamer, special convocation program attended
by DENR employees, radio guesting over DXKP-RPN, Pagadian City, and information campaign in selected schools with
the distribution of primers
entitled Climate Change: Coping with the Changes.
Aside from
conducting information campaign in different schools and communities, the DENR
is also implementing the National Greening Program (NGP) to mitigate the
adverse impacts of Climate Change affecting human, economic and ecological
securities. The NGP targets to plant and
grow some 1.5 billion trees covering about 1.5 million hectares for a period of
six (6) years from 2011-2016, in the lands of public domain such as: forestlands, mangrove and protected areas,
ancestral domains, civil and military reservations, and urban areas. The government,
private sector, people’s organizations, non-government organizations, and civil
society join hands in the activities of the NGP- as volunteer planters,
long-term plantation stewards or donors.
Here are some
additional ways you can help make our planet a better place: read and learn about the environment, save
electricity, take a bike and a walk, plant trees, observe Reduce, Reuse and
Recycle to send less trash and help save resources like trees, oil, aluminum
and others. (H. A. Ascura/DENR-9 PR)