MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) recalls that extended producers responsibility (EPR) really means that until every branded pollution persist in nature, we should never stop making these producers fully accountable. We welcome this research and its implications. We will continue to support the lobby for a national law and local ordinances in all local government units in the Philippines to institutionalize EPR, starting with plastic pollution. To read more about the Green Economics Agenda of MAKAKALIKALIKASAN where this position is an integral part of, please read this: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/ecological-economics.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.zerowaste www.facebook.com/groups/ph.greengovernance To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article: Global movement #BreakFreeFromPlastic said fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies Universal Robina Corporation (URC), Nestle, and Colgate-Palmolive were the top 3 corporate plastic polluters in the Philippines in 2020, as shown in the Philippine version of the 2020 Brand Audit Report.The 3 corporations’ packaging waste accounts for 46% of the total of 38,580 plastic items collected. Of this, 6,350 plastic items from URC were collected, 6,168 from Nestle, and 5,580 from Colgate-Palmolive. The report also said 91% of the total collected plastics were non-recyclables, particularly sachets. “This figure proves that recent efforts by FMCGs to boost their so-called recycling efforts are completely useless in addressing plastic pollution in the Philippines,” the groups in the movement said in a statement on Saturday, March 20. Read more
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MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this innovation and investment on the part of the government that will help in improving our climate actions in both adaptation and mitigation measures. We call on the wide use and adaption; especially of the local government units and local organization of this new technology. MAKAKALIKASAN is for immediate and sustained climate actions in the country as well as the improvement f our R&D (research and development) to make this happen. To read our MAKAKALIKASAN's Green Agenda on climate actions, please read here: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/climate--public-health-emergency-actions.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.climatecations To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article: A new program in the Philippines shows how data tools and mapping can help improve disaster responses and climate adaptation. For countries in Southeast Asia that are highly vulnerable to climate impacts, data sharing is one way to build more equitable responses to climate change and disasters. A new push by the Philippines to use data to improve natural disaster responses may offer lessons for countries across Southeast Asia that face increasing impacts from climate change. The Philippines sees some of the most intense and frequent natural disasters of any country in the world, from tropical cyclones and floods to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. In 2020, the Philippines was hit by at least six typhoons, destroying over 425,000 houses. Two powerful typhoons—Goni and Vamco—hit the country just over a week apart in October and November. Since 2018, the Filipino government has been developing geospatial data and mapping tools that can help make disaster responses more effective and equitable. The tools are part of the government’s National Exposure Database, an initiative that enables data sharing and analysis between state agencies, local authorities and NGOs, according to reporting by Mongabay. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) supports extended producers responsibility (EPR) as a cornerstone of our efforts towards circular economy towards our vision of zero waste. We therefore weight in on our support to House Bill House (HB) 8691, or the proposed Extended Producer Responsibility Act of 2021 now pending in the lower house of congress. We commit to promote and lobby this law. As this will amend the ecological solid waste manage law; we; however raise caution for such a bill or other similar legislative proposal undermining the key provisions of RA 9003 that as it is has not even been fully implemented. For example, any rider provision that will allow for incineration as part of the waste management stream or options for producers to use in the practice of their EPR. To understand more about MAKAKALIKASAN's GREEN ECONOMIC Agenda where support for ecological solid waste and our shift to a circular economy is discuss, please read this: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/ecological-economics.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.zerowaste To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article A leader of the House of Representatives is pushing for the passage of a bill seeking to advocate a zero waste lifestyle by institutionalizing the practice of extended producer responsibility (EPR). In House Bill 8691, or the proposed Extended Producer Responsibility Act of 2021, Deputy Speaker and Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar said her proposal aims to require producers to manage the impacts of their products throughout their entire life cycle, including take-back, recycling and proper disposal. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines), reminds DENR that this is long overdue. No need for grandstanding. Just finish the job. We welcome and support all efforts now by the DENR to enforce this long-delayed law. There is no more excuse in not fully enforcing this law. Our time is up. This is simply what is expected of DENR and the LGUs. No more, no less. Just get it done!
Read here MAKAKALIKASAN Green Agenda on Ecological Economics that covers our position on ecological solid waste management towards zero waste: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/ecological-economics.html JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.zerowaste To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article Two initiatives are being undertaken by the DENR to carry out the program: closure of illegal open dumpsites; and establishment of more sanitary landfills (SLFs) nationwide. On the closure of illegal open dumpsites, the DENR as of the latest padlocked two local government-run open dumpsites: a 6-hectare open dumpsite in Tanza, Cavite; and a 4-hectare illegal dumpsite in Sta. Ana, Pampanga. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this plan of the DOF (Department of Finance) to pursue carbon pricing and taxation. We enjoin the DOF to ensure that there is no
"regressivity within the system" as carbon tax are meant to be direct tax to products, services and processes that leads to more carbon emissions. We also welcome the plan of the DOF on carbon procing that will result to incentives for clean energy investments. Carbon tax is part of MAKAKALIKASAN's GREEN AGENDA under Sustainable National Financing. You can read it here: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/sustainable-national-financing.html To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article The Philippines is looking into carbon pricing and taxation to slap a price on harmful emissions in line with the country’s push to fight climate change. “We recognize that there is a need to put in place measures to reduce carbon emissions while balancing the short-term versus long-term economic objectives and environmental goals,” director Nina Asuncion of the Department of Finance (DOF) told a webinar organized by the Tokyo-based think tank Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) last week. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) agrees with this observation that the low unconditional commitments put to question how serious government is in pursuing our commitments to the Paris Climate Agreements. We note further the following concerns of the current draft of the Philippines NDC (Nationally Determined Commitments):
DENR has no clear reduction targets from forest, DA sees no growth potential for organic agriculture & that farmers are only moved by income, DoTR is into this agenda as co-benefit for its mobility agenda & seemed to be failing in its "just transition" in phasing out PUVs, DoE still justifies the continuity of coal. Between these 4 line agencies, they are managing actions that has the most driving force in climate impacts and these red lights are not so promising. CCC (Climate Change Commission) insist that they are for higher target ambitions from 30% to 75% but most government agencies have no proposed improvement on the component on unconditional targets justifying that they do not want to commit beyond what they can deliver based on their capacities. Which basically means, we are not really owning the actions needed to achieve this ambitious target. While labeled as a multi-stakeholder consultation, glaring is the lack of participation of industry and private sector which government has chosen obviously to dialogue with separately. So in a lot of sense, the title of this consultation is misleading and does not give a chance to non government players and other stakeholders to effectively engage industry and we have no way at the point to truly confirm and monitor if their fair share of the NDC target are sufficient and what they are actually doing with its realization. It seems the message here by government is that industry is "untouchable". NBS - Nature Based Solutions (NBS) is a new buzzword dangerously being applied to too broad number of actions that needs to be justified before considering. Some of the unsaid remains the inclusion of nuclear energy as option for renewable energy, "sustainable plantations" are being justified as NBS, and waste-to-energy system that have found itself in the NDC targets of government line agencies. So a lot more really needs to be done. We are at this point not satisfied with government's ambitions and commitments To understand more the CLIMATE ACTION AGENDA of MAKAKALIKASAN, please read this: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/climate--public-health-emergency-actions.html JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.climateactions To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: Makakalikasan Assembly Original article A document draft outlines the Philippines’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – our commitments to combating climate change and environmental degradation. The draft indicates a 75% target decrease in emissions. We welcome this ambitious goal – but in the fine details, it is not enough, with only a 2.71% emission cutback hardcoded into our plans. We need to achieve that 75%. We need to meet the commitments we’ve set down on paper, and we need to start working towards them today. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcome the apparent "no votes" winning in yesterday's plebiscite for a law that will split this island province into three. MAKAKALIKASAN joins other environmental groups' concern that creating three provinces will weaken the environmental protection and management of this critical island ecosystem -- the last frontier of Philippine environment. This good article explains the ecological and geo-political context of this effort to weaken governance of Palawan province, a classic attempt at divide and conquer. We need a decisive and comprehensive GREEN AGENDA within a bio-geographical governance mechanisms like island-wide ecosystem management. This will be difficult to realize in a divided Palawan island. Read our GREEN AAGENDA here: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/political-agenda.html
To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article The Philippine province of Palawan is set to decide on a law that will divide the province into three: Palawan del Norte, Palawan Oriental and Palawan del Sur. Palawan stands on the Philippines’ western border and is the country’s sentinel in the maritime dispute in the South China Sea. Anti-division groups have raised concerns that the split will weaken the implementation and management of environmental programs Palawan has been known for, and in the process, endanger the province’s already threatened ecology. Palawan’s marine ecosystems have been under constant threat from illegal fishing and poaching by foreign vessels encroaching on its waters. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this development in the UN and we hope this will lead to better monitoring of sustainable development in every country and worldwide that will guide more and more aggressive actions for environmental protection and responding to climate change. This has been long overdue. With this new framework at the UN, every Green Party and Green Movement worldwide would have a better standing in lobbying our respective governments and convincing our citizens on the necessity to shift quickly to our GREEN AGENDA. Read hear about MAKAKALIKASAN's GREEN AGENDA: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/political-agenda.html
To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article In a move that may reshape decision and policy-making towards sustainable development, the United Nations adopted a new framework today that includes the contributions of nature when measuring economic prosperity and human well-being. The new framework — the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting—Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) — was adopted by the UN Statistical Commission and marks a major step forward that goes beyond the commonly used statistic of gross domestic product (GDP) that has dominated economic reporting since the end of World War II. This measure would ensure that natural capital—forests, wetlands and other ecosystems—are recognized in economic reporting. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) supports this legal action of Dumagat-Remontado leaders, other local leaders and their support group, the SKDN (Stop Kaliwa Dam Network) to stop this anomalous access road leading to the dam site. We believe the state must honor the rights of the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) to self-determination and ensure that free, prior, informed consent is secured from them for any and all development projects within their ancestral domain. For more information about the GREEN AGENDA of MAKAKALIKASAN in support of Indigenous Peoples, please read this: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/ensure-self-determination-of-peoples--final-peace-settlements.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.indigenouspeoples To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article MANILA, Philippines — Groups opposing the Kaliwa Dam project asked a court in Quezon province to compel the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System and other government agencies to stop the construction of an access road leading to the dam site. The Stop Kaliwa Dam Network (SKDN), Dumagat leaders and local leaders filed a petition for environmental protection order and writ of continuing mandamus Thursday before the Infanta Regional Trial Court, saying the access road violated several processes and decrees protecting and preserving the culture, ecology and biodiversity in the area where it is being built. Read more Best Practices: How Regenerative & Organic Agriculture and Land Use Can Reverse Global Warming3/14/2021 MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this comprehensive article by the Regeneration International that details how regenerative and organic agriculture and proper land use can be a solution to global warming rather than agriculture remaining a major cause of climate change. In MAKAKALIKASAN's Green Manifesto and our option for a GREEN NORMAL, we have defined our view that such a green normal will take the form of three key elements: sustainability, planetary health & well-being and REGENERATION. So we are definitely a supporter of this view of the "new" agriculture. Read about our GREEN MANIFESTO as part of our party overview here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t7jRR-OOxngIdXfdaGevMzZZ2RbqQFZa/view?usp=sharing (slide 8-19) or read our GREEN AGENDA on Sustainable Agriculture: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/sustainable-agriculture.html
JOIN to ACT through our relevant FB Action Groups: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.sustainable.agriculture www.facebook.com/groups/ph.climateactions To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article The earth’s soils, along with trees and plants, are the largest sink or depository for carbon after the oceans. Regenerative organic agricultural practices sequester CO2 and store it in the soil and above ground as organic matter. Perennial polycultures, agroforestry, and reforestation can sustain and increase both above ground and below ground carbon. Scaling up a small percentage (5-10%) of best practice regenerative and organic systems will result in billions of tons (Gt) of CO2 per year being sequestered into the soil and into continuous, perennial above ground biomass. The identification, funding, and deployment of these best practices on 5-10% or more of the world’s total croplands (4 billion acres), rangelands (8 billion acres), and forestlands (10 billion acres) will be more than enough to draw down and cancel out all the current CO2 and greenhouse gases (43 Gt of CO2) that are currently being emitted, without putting any more CO2 into the atmosphere or the oceans. Read more |
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