MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this new report with regret that more and more people are suffering from the ever increasing impact of climate change in many countries all over the globe, including the Philippines. This only shows that our capacity to respond to these climate-induce natural calamities is grossly insufficient and it seems our climate adaptation is not working well enough. More actions from government now and the foreseeable future is definitely needed and all this requires political will to pursue the needed climate actions. Please read MAKAKALIKASAN's Green Agenda on Climate Actions for what we think should be done: 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: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article A new report reveals 12.6 million people have been internally displaced around the world in the last six months mainly due to climate and weather-related disasters, according to data available through the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) report, Responding to Disasters and Displacement in a Changing Climate, comes hot on the heels of a record-breaking 26 climate-related disaster response operations launched across Asia and the Pacific in 2020. Read more
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MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this boost in state funding for the development of the bamboo industry in the country which includes its massive use in reforestation work that can also provide sustainable livelihood for forest dwellers. As a sustainable resource, bamboo has huge potential as alternative material for housing and other building. It has various application in many other day to day products that can substitute for current raw materials that are non renewable, including plastics. MAKAKALIKASAN will support its promotion and development but we also remind government that while bamboo can create good "buffers" in boundaries of reforestation site and are excellent to plant in steep slopes to avoid further erosion, it is not a substitute for the needed diversity of many other ecosystem and habitat-specific hardwood varieties for reforestation. We also remind the government to ensure the price and access of people, especially the poor, to bamboo remains affordable and not let its categorization as high-value crop result in sky rocketing of its price simply because we will have more exports for it. Local supply must remain stable and sufficient. Read about MAKAKALIKASAN's Biodiversity Conservation Agenda: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/biodiversity--habitat-conservation.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.reforestation 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 government has allocated at least P22 billion for the development of bamboo industry in the country from 2021 to 2022 as the high value added forest product has good export potential, wide industry applications, and jobs creation. Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez said at the North Luzon and Central Luzon Virtual Bamboo Summit that for 2021 government agencies are implementing P594 million worth of projects while the Development Bank of the Philippines is making available P10 billion in loans for the industry. For 2022, a total of P1.4 billion-worth of projects have been proposed for that budget cycle, and about P10 billion-worth of loans again will be again made available. Read more 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 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 |
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