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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

DENR-9 Observes the Global Warming and Climate Consciousness Week


DENR-IX RED Arleigh J. Adorable
deliver his message during the
special convocation program on
Climate Change Consciousness
Week. (Photo provided)
PAGADIAN CITY  - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 9 headed by Regional Executive Director Arleigh J. Adorable supports the observance of the Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness (CCC) Week from November 15-19, 2012 through the conduct of relevant activities focusing on the theme:” Climate Change Pilipinas:  Naghahanda sa Pagbabago Ng Klima”.
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)   

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