PAGADIAN CITY, May 29 (PNA) -- The Department
of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to reactivate the Regional
Task Force on Climate Change for the Zamboanga Peninsula.
This was announced by DENR Regional Executive
Director (RED) Arleigh Adorable citing the need to reactivate the task force as
some of its members coming from the different government agencies have already
retired from the government service.
Adorable said the reactivation is also in
preparation for the launching of information and education campaign (IEC) on
climate change scheduled to be held in June 10 this year.
Adorable said the Technical Working Group (TWG)
and the Regional Secretariat will meet next week to discuss about the
reactivation of the Regional Task Force on Climate Change.
Adorable, being the DENR RED, chairs the
climate change task force with members coming from the different government
agencies.
On Wednesday, 30 information officers coming
from the different Community Environment and Natural Resources Offices (CENROs)
and Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officers (PENROs) as well as
the Information Center Managers of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) from
the region have attended an orientation on climate change advocacy in this
city.
DENR Regional Public Affairs Officer Rosevirico
Tan said the orientation was a collaborative effort of the agency and that of
the PIA.
Tan discussed during the orientation about the
Climate Change Advocacy (Perspective Change) while Protected Areas and Wildlife
Division (PAWD) chief Cidur Julsadjiri and PIA Regional Director Noemi Edaga
presented the Regional Communication Plan and Regional IEC Plan on Climate
Change, respectively.
A one-hour documentary
entitled “Chasing Ice” was shown during the orientation to provide the
participants a glimpse on the impact of global warming. (PNA)
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