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The Climate Change Commission (CCC) has underscored the need to integrate climate resilience and sustainability as fundamental strategies and principles to better rebuild in the post-pandemic era.
Therefore, national and local leaders are urged to adopt a green Covid-19 recovery plan in order to ensure a better one for all Filipinos, the CCC said in a press release.
Emphasizing that rebuilding better should be the country’s way forward to overcome not only the challenges of the pandemic but also the threat of a global climate crisis, the CCC cited a study by the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
Through the study “Will Covid-19 Fiscal Recovery Packages Accelerate or Delay Progress on Climate Change?” The CCC highlighted that the Covid-19 crisis represents a dramatic shock to the global economy that will affect the progress of climate change in multifaceted ways.
Therefore, the CCC underlined that the economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis should focus on green investment and climate resilience building programs, such as support for low-carbon technologies, eco-construction, eco-design policies, and investments. in research and development for ecological purposes. , investment in education and training to address the immediate unemployment of Covid-19, and investment in natural capital for the resilience and regeneration of ecosystems. The CCC also cited the declaration of the Global Adaptation Commission, signed by world leaders, including former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa , and House Vice President Loren Legarda, urging countries to rebuild better after the pandemic and incorporate climate resilience into economic recovery packages.
The CCC supported the GCA’s call for accelerated progress in seven areas: locally led adaptation, urban resilience, water resource management, social safety nets, food security, nature-based solutions and disaster prevention.
They also highlighted the call to “seize the opportunity to transform the way we understand, plan, finance and respond to risk” and to “embed climate resilience into decisions at all levels of government and in businesses, communities and households “.
With this, the climate agency emphasized that current climate and environmental policies and laws must be applied and inform the development of the country’s economic recovery packages to address the present and anticipate future challenges for our climate and environment, while promotes better health and well-being. to all Filipinos.
In these difficult times, the CCC encouraged public and private sector leaders to foster a more people-centered approach to governance, promote inclusion, especially for the vulnerable and marginalized, and scale up sustainable initiatives to ensure that no one is left behind. left behind.
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