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Arroyo seeks binding agreement on climate change treaty
| posted by Angeline Valencia | November 15, 2009 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed optimism that the 15th Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, Denmark on December 7-18 will ratify a new climate change treaty that will include a binding agreement and concrete commitment to cut carbon emission by industrialized countries. The President issued the statement during the Cabinet meeting last November 10 at the Loboc Children’s Palace which focused on climate change and disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness. The new climate change treaty will replace the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. Arroyo tasked Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change Secretary Heherson Alvarez, who serves as the country’s chief negotiator to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to push for adequate resources for adaptation, financing, technology transfer and the protection of Philippine forests. Alvarez said the President has also instructed the Philippine delegation to call for deep and early cuts in carbon dioxide emissions by industrialized countries of at least 30 percent from 2013 to 2017, 50 percent from 2018 to 2022 and at least 95 percent by 2050- -all based on the 1990 levels. “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has proposed that if the world is to avert a tipping point of irreversible climate change by 2050, industrialized nations must cut carbon emissions by at least 50 percent,” according to a Malacañang press release distributed during the event. The national government also announced the week-long observance of “Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness Week” from November 19 to 25, as declared by President Arroyo through Proclamation 1667. Other events are the “Exhibit or MRF, Best Practices” at SM City-North EDSA also from November 19-25, a “Media Summit on Climate Change” on November 20 in Malacañang Palace, a “Green Technology Parade and Fair” at the Quezon City Memorial Circle on November 21 that comes with free concert for climate change at 6 pm. Arroyo was in Loboc on Tuesday last week to lead the ribbon-cutting for the P4.78-million Loboc fish landing and multi-purpose docking port in barangay Villaflor. Joining her in the ceremony were Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) General Manager Petronilo Bueno, Loboc Mayor Leon Calipusan, and the three congressmen of Bohol- -Representatives Adam Relson Jala of the third district, Roberto Cajes of the second district and Edgar Chatto of the first district. PFDA implements the project as funded under the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Program. From the ceremony, the President proceeded to the Loboc Tourism Center for the supposed 30-minute one-one interview with Peter Dejaresco aired live by national TV stations which was cut short due to power interruption. Earlier, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III told the local media that for four times already, politics had been dropped in the previous Cabinet meetings and last week’s round was focused on climate change, disaster preparedness and relief operation. It was for this reason that Duque declined to confirm his 2010 ambitions as he said other Cabinet members poising for the polls had also failed in previous meetings to insert topics on preparations for the administration line-up. Duque said the President refused to talk about 2010 preparations of the administration party to focus on finding long-term solutions to the large-scale damage that every typhoon brings to most areas of the country that calls for more efficient disaster management scheme and preparedness also in terms of food supply. Past Sunday current Sunday Update | ||
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