November 13, 2021
A pleasant morning to you all. Thank you to the Angeles University Foundation for this chance to raise awareness on the challenges of air pollution and to strengthen our cooperation in implementing the Clean Air Act. I recognize the important work that you are doing to help raise the air quality standards of our country. Granting we would have been in a much worse situation without this law, the expected outcomes, however, are far from the reality we have today.
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November 8, 2021
Mr. Speaker, dear colleagues:
Last Sunday, October 31st, after a year’s postponement due to the pandemic, the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) finally opened in Glasgow under the presidency of the United Kingdom. These twelve days of climate talks could well be “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control.” Today, November 8, the nation commemorates the eighth anniversary of Supertyphoon Yolanda.
Indeed, this climate summit is a […]
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October 27, 2021
Excellencies, esteemed colleagues,
The clock is ticking. Climate change is now accelerating and this spells economic and financial disruption and destruction while leaving behind devastation for the world’s most climate vulnerable developing countries.
Climate change worsens what is already an increasingly difficult cost of capital challenges and it accentuates the fact that the maturity of private capital to vulnerable countries is also in short supply.
Vulnerable country parliaments must challenge and complement the executive departments to dramatically raise climate ambition. It is time […]
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October 5, 2021
Happy World Teachers Day sa lahat ng guro na walang katumbas ang dedikasyon para maghatid ng de-kalidad na edukasyon sa ating kabataan sa kabila ng hamon sa ating education system dulot ng kasulukuyang pandemya.
Nais kong ipaabot ang aking buong-pusong pagpupugay sa patuloy ninyong pagpupursige na magampanan ang inyong sinumpaang propesyon sa kabila ng pagpapatupad natin ng blended learning system.
Isang napakalaking hamon para sa education sector ang pandemyang ito dahil sa mga karagdagang responsibilidad na inyong kailangang pangatawanan upang masiguro na […]
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September 29, 2021
CVF Asia Regional Dialogue 2021
Ministerial Meeting
September 29, 2021
Friends and colleagues at the Climate Vulnerable Forum:
The reports of the past months tell us that we may not be doing enough to save our planet and our future.
Global warming might breach past the 1.5 survival threshold by 2040, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Our NDCs lead to a 2.7-degree world, according to the UN. July this year was also said to be the hottest month ever recorded, with […]
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