DENR, PIA to Firm Up Campaign on Climate Change

*Environment agency pursues efforts to lessen the effects of global warming.
*A significant number of communities are “way too far from disaster preparedness and adaptation mitigation”.
*Campaign aims to convince communities to adopt climate change programs and insulate their communities from the impacts of weather changes and patterns.

The Department of Natural Resources (DENR) and the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) firms up an agreement that rationalizes the implementation of a nationwide Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation programs in the hope of getting a dent on the apathy building in Philippine communities.

The campaign is the latest of the environment agency’s efforts to mitigate the effects of global warming by convincing people and communities to adopt climate change adaptations and insulate their communities from the impacts of weather changes and patterns.

The DENR admits that Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation campaigns have been implemented but there remains a significant number of communities which are “way too far from disaster preparedness and adaptation mitigations”.

During a recent PIA-DENR Visayas Mindanao Cluster Orientation on Climate Change Advocacy campaign held at the Alona Kew Resort in Panglao on May 6-8, authorities from both agencies relayed to the regions the urgency of cascading climate change concepts to communities.

The move is to counter and crumble the building indifference, a risky behavior among people in communities that are exposed to the dangers which climate change brings.

Environment Public Affairs Office OIC Director Maria Sabrina Cruz, in her message to DENR Regional Public Affairs Office personnel and PIA Regional Directors for Visayas and Mindanao urged government think-tanks to run better thought-of programs to produce unique campaign results.

Earlier, PIA Director General Jose Mari Oquinena pointed out that there is a reason to suspect that environment campaigns need to change perspectives of people and communities.

Oquinena said there is this belief that climate change is somebody else’s fault, that the main objective should be to weaken public apathy so adaptation can be pushed through effectively.

After this, he said, it would not be hard to inspire, motivate and the ask them to participate and foster partnerships and networks.

Climate Change has a wide environmental impact on different wide bases that mitigation and disaster resilience is the most desired response.