JONES, Isabela, Jan. 26 – Environmentalists and other cause-oriented groups joined hands on Monday (January 25) to call for adoption of measures to mitigate climate change amid successive weather disturbances which many claimed are effects of the phenomenon.
Rev. Fr. Jerry Sagun, one of the convenors, emphasized the need to help mitigate climate change especially with the drought, flooding and other natural calamities being experienced in various parts of the country. Various speakers have tackled the environmental and ecological situation in Isabela such as the recurring illegal logging activities.
About 500 representatives from different non-government organizations, religious groups, and government workers met here where they started a caravan from the Dalibubon bridge, passing through the Jones municipal hall and public market to the parish in Barangay 2 here.
Sagun said there are many ways to minimize expected damage of the climate change to the environment.
Among those cited by organizers were reforestation and road side and open spaces planting to balance-out carbon emissions.
Earlier, the Environmental Management Bureau in Cagayan Valley called for human interventions, citing that the super typhoons last year can be attributed to climate change.
The government has called for the conservation of energy and efficient solid waste management including the recycling, reduction and reuse of consumer waste, and segregation of garbage.
Researchers said that a diesel-fed vehicle spews 2.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide per liter consumed, and 2.35 of the same for gasoline while at least 0.23 kilograms of carbon is discharged into the atmosphere per kilowatt hour used from coal-fired power plants and 0.26 kg for oil-fed generators.
The Philippines had a total carbon emission of 103,085 kilotons in 1994 or 0.27 percent of worldwide emission, the environment management report said. (PNA)
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