Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday said he would reject “all official participation” in climate change conferences that would require air travel.
The Group of 7 (G7) Environment Ministers agreed on a Communiqué and the Metz Charter on Biodiversity at the G7 Environment Ministers’ Meeting. The Communiqué addresses inequalities and inclusivity in transitioning towards a green future, the role of science and research in the context of sustainable development, international mobilization and leadership for biodiversity, international mobilization for climate, concrete solutions for the environment and their co-benefits, resource and energy efficiency, concrete solutions for biodiversity and their co-benefits, and sustainable finance and biodiversity.
The Commission on Human Rights expressed hopes the government will remain active in climate change prevention despite the Department of Foreign Affairs’ decision to stop sending representatives to conferences abroad.
Despite his exhortation to officials not to attend climate change conferences abroad, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has clarified the country is not abandoning discussions on the matter altogether.
President Rodrigo Duterte again expressed displeasure over the United Nations’ (UN) climate change deal, this time calling it “favorable” only to rich nations and made poor countries look “foolish.”
The regional director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here has given all business establishment owners and households along the riverbanks in this town six months to comply with environmental laws or else, they will face sanctions
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday said he is rejecting all official Philippine participation in climate change conferences abroad as the country is poised to vote “yes” on radical proposals in support to the 2016 Paris Agreement.
Philippine jurisprudence on the environment has been on a steady pace of development since the 70’s and 80’s. It got a global boost when the famous case of Oposa vs Factoran came out in 1993. In it, the Philippine Supreme Court bravely and courageously gave standing to generations yet unborn – an argument from the creative legal mind of Atty. Antonio Oposa, Jr. Since then the Oposa case has been cited and replicated all over the world, more recently in on-going climate litigation cases such as the Juliana case in the US.
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