National Climate Change Commission (NCCC) Secretary Mary Lucille Sering said the President will not dip his hands in signing the eighteen-year climate change plan without reading and studying the contents as this will supersede even his administration.
This left an impression that at a time when the world's top economies are already bracing for the effects of climate change, the Philippines, a third world and developing country, remains turtle-paced in mitigating the effects of climate change and global warming, which will likely affect us even worse than other developed states.
However, she said all three commissioners of the NCCC have already signed the plan and are only awaiting the president's go signal to execute the plan.
She said among the contents of the climate change action plan is the identification and assessment of the country's vulnerability to climate change and mitigation measures needed to counter its effects.
As of now, she said the NCCC is working with the National Economic Development Authority in the valuation of the country's natural resources to protect them from being exploited, abused and affected by some groups or by the effects of climate change. Read the full report here.
Source: Sun.Star Baguio.
