TAGUM CITY -- President Benigno Simeon Aquino III should prioritize climate change, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Davao del Norte provincial director Nenita Nazareno said.
“Take climate change as priority and everything else will follow,” she said in a press conference with student writers who asked what DTI should appeal to the President for the environment.
The student writers attended the Basic News Writing cum press conference that was part of the two-day Press Freedom Month Celebration which bannered the theme “Freedom of Information, the Right to Know.”
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change defines climate change as “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural variability observed over comparable time periods.”If priority is centered on climate change, people in all sectors of the government bureaucracy -- from agriculture, industry to environment, business to social-economic will pay attention to it.
“It means life to all of us,” she said. “This is not the job of one but everybody must do something to save mother Earth,” she added.
As this year’s observance of Consumer Month bannered the theme “Consumers are Green Multipliers,” Nazareno also highlighted the advocacy of arresting adverse effects of climate change.
President Aquino last month attended the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) held from October 4 to 5 in Brussels, Belgium among others to solicit help from European leaders from the mitigation of effects of climate change in the country.
“One thing personally, that I would want to be able to source from them is the global climate change mitigation efforts. We will get a lot of assistance from members of the European Union,” Aquino said in an interview before the Asem event.
Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on October 30, 2010.
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