MANILA— House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda urged government agencies on Tuesday to implement various environmental laws, noting that the proposed national budget supposedly does not show efforts in reducing greenhouse gases.
“I do not see a reflection of our NDC in our National Expenditure Program in the national budget that Congress is deliberating now. It is a business as usual budget. I don’t even see it as a pandemic recovery budget," Legarda explained. "It must not be just one government agency or a commission or a few agencies where people believe climate or environment affect its operations. Every aspect in the budgetary process and all programs of governments must be aligned with all environmental laws already existing, which I authored way back in 1998," said Legarda.
"An NDC is not cast in stone and we know that in the coming year, I would like to be able to speak to each and every department, especially agriculture, transport, energy and environment perhaps so that we can even scale up our climate ambition," she explained. Boccoz pointed out that despite “a brief dip” in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is “still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century – far beyond the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing 1.5°C.”
Renewables are the answer. From cutting down demand from oil and lower carbon emissions it will trickle down to our economy. I don't know why government aren't too keen on renewable energy.
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