The action plan, a comprehensive national program of the government covering a period of 18 years, is the country's roadmap for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
“Though P-Noy (President Aquino) was a no-show during the formal celebration, he more than made up for it by finally signing the NCCAP (National Climate Change Action Plan). This signals the government's firm commitment to help us all cope with climate change impacts," Rowena Bolinas, Aksyon Klima (AK) coordinator, said in a statement.
Greenest president
Aksyon Klima is a network of 40 civil society organizations working on various climate change and development-related issues.
Officials said that President Aquino's signing of the government's action plan against climate change would make him “one of the greenest president'' in the country.
The President, as chair of the Climate Change Commission (CCC), approved the action plan on Tuesday.
“We did an 18-year plan to cover the six-year terms of Presidents and we said that President Aquino will not be anymore just a Yellow president but one of the greenest presidents of the country,'' CCC vice chair Mary Ann Lucille Sering told reporters.
Sering said the action plan would outline the agenda for climate change adaptation and mitigation for 2011 to 2028.
Under the plan, the government would undertake seven strategic priorities—food security, water sufficiency, ecosystem and environmental stability, human security, climate-smart industries and services, sustainable energy and knowledge and capacity development. Read the full report here.
Source: by T.J. Burgonio, Philippine Daily Inquirer.
