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“The Duterte government’s relentless pursuit of mining and other destructive activities touted as ‘economic recovery’ will cost us a minimum P680-billion ecological deficit. Worse, there was zero green spending in the national government’s economic stimulus packages,” CEC Executive Director Lia Mai Torres said during her keynote discussion in an Earth Day Webcast Forum held Thursday, April 22.
Torres described the Palace’s recent executive order lifitng the mining agreement moratorium as “one of the biggest blows to the efforts to preserve the country’s natural resources.”
“It’s very ironic that the President still agreed to lift the moratorium, considering that mining is one of the causes of massive flooding damages from typhoons ‘Rolly’ and ‘Ulysses’,” she added.
sachet, packaging, or products that are multilayered with other materials The list, the groups said, was drawn from the NSWMC Resolution No. 1363 (Series of 2020) on the unnecessary single-use plastics, the five Gyres Better-Alternatives-Now Global Ban Recommendation, Ocean Conservancy’s 2019 International Coastal Clean-up most common items found in the Philippines, 2020 Social Weather Survey Stations Survey, Break Free from Plastic Philippines Project 2020 Brand Audit Report, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources 2020 Coastal Clean Up Data. Councilor Lalaine Marcos of Ormoc City, which implemented a week-long ban on single-use plastics, called on the Commission to expedite banning single-use plastics. Ramos, meanwhile, said the NEAPP list should be updated every year.
“Are you going to do what science is asking you to do to fight the climate crisis?” the youth, including Disha A. Ravi of Fridays For Future India and Sofía Gutiérrez of Fridays For Future Colombia, asked in an open letter.
The letter from the global activists was released on Biden’s inauguration day as he won praise from climate organizations for a number of expected climate-related, “day one” executive actions including revoking the presidential permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline and rejoining the Paris climate deal.
Referencing the accord’s more ambitious goal for a global temperature increase threshold, the youth wrote: “The next four years will decide whether we can limit temperature rise to 1.5°C. Your place in history makes you the last administration able to act in time.”
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