Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Climate change initiatives urged on RP
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The Philippines must actively participate in global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to help prevent extreme climatic changes that cause natural disaster, Sen. Loren Legarda said yesterday.
Noting efforts by them European Union (EU) to draw up the "most ambitious plan" on reducing emissions during UN climate talks in Poznan Poland, Loren said the Philippines "must do its share to fight global warming."
She urged the government to adopt the Albay Declaration as a starting point of its climate change initiatives, which, she said, should include efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change already being felt in the country.
"We, Filipinos, must implement a workable course of action to reduce greenhouse emissions in our part of the world, as well as set a timetable on achieving the goals we will lay down," she said.
"The Philippines must march in cadence with the rest of the world in trying to stop global warming and the weather extremes that cause natural calamities like floods, tsunamis, landslides, and droughts."
In the 12- day Poland talks on climate change, the EU has proposed that its members and other developed economies cut their emissions by 25 t0 40 percent by 2020 based on the 1990 levels. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is organizing the conference which started Monday.
Loren lauded the EU's initiative saying other countries should set lofty but realizable targets no matter how high the economic price they may entail.
No economic price is too big when ranged against the environmental benefits to be derived from a shift to less- polluting technologies such as wind and water power, she said.
Global warming is measured by the increase temperature of the Earth's surface, air, and water. Among its many feared effects are rising sea levels, glacier retreat, mass species extinction, and climatic change.
"Climate change is very real and it is going to get worse unless something is done about it," said the senator, who was cited in 2001 by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) for her environmental advocacy.
"The rain we are experiencing late in the year may be attributable to its already, along with the water shortages felt by many areas in the south," she said.
Noting efforts by them European Union (EU) to draw up the "most ambitious plan" on reducing emissions during UN climate talks in Poznan Poland, Loren said the Philippines "must do its share to fight global warming."
She urged the government to adopt the Albay Declaration as a starting point of its climate change initiatives, which, she said, should include efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change already being felt in the country.
"We, Filipinos, must implement a workable course of action to reduce greenhouse emissions in our part of the world, as well as set a timetable on achieving the goals we will lay down," she said.
"The Philippines must march in cadence with the rest of the world in trying to stop global warming and the weather extremes that cause natural calamities like floods, tsunamis, landslides, and droughts."
In the 12- day Poland talks on climate change, the EU has proposed that its members and other developed economies cut their emissions by 25 t0 40 percent by 2020 based on the 1990 levels. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is organizing the conference which started Monday.
Loren lauded the EU's initiative saying other countries should set lofty but realizable targets no matter how high the economic price they may entail.
No economic price is too big when ranged against the environmental benefits to be derived from a shift to less- polluting technologies such as wind and water power, she said.
Global warming is measured by the increase temperature of the Earth's surface, air, and water. Among its many feared effects are rising sea levels, glacier retreat, mass species extinction, and climatic change.
"Climate change is very real and it is going to get worse unless something is done about it," said the senator, who was cited in 2001 by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) for her environmental advocacy.
"The rain we are experiencing late in the year may be attributable to its already, along with the water shortages felt by many areas in the south," she said.
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