Several of government’s partners will help further enhance efforts for facilitating the Philippines’ shift to low-carbon development which emphasizes reduction in resource- and energy-intensive practices to achieve climate change mitigation and sustainable socio-economic progress.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the United Kingdom, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and non-government organization Asian Women’s Network on Gender and Development will conduct online training for six weeks for better orienting and capacitating Philippine public and private sector stakeholders on promoting green growth.
Green growth is environmentally sustainable economic progress which fosters development that is socially inclusive and low on emission of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Experts identified CO2 as among greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, raising global temperature that drives climate change.
“There’s no time to lose,” UNESCAP Environmental Affairs Officer Aneta Nikolova said Tuesday on the side of the first national seminar the partners held in Metro Manila to orient the stakeholders on green growth policy tools for low-carbon development in the Philippines.
She raised urgency for green growth particularly in the developing world, which includes the Philippines, noting human population is ballooning while resources are becoming more scarce.
“Climate change also poses a challenge,” she noted.
Among climate change’s impacts on countries are onslaught of destructive weather extremes and sea level rise.
“Places like the Philippines are impacted more than the others,” noted Steph Lysaght, who heads the British Embassy’s Political and Economic Section.
The partners will conduct the online training after the seminar.
Modules for the online training will be on new growth strategy for Asia and the Pacific, environmental tax and fiscal reform, sustainable infrastructure and the way forward.
”Last week of the training involves developing a one-page case study related to showcasing applicability of green growth policy approach in the country,” the partners noted.
Public and private sector representatives who participated in the seminar can avail of the online training through the Green Growth On-line e-Learning Facility.
”They can afterwards help provide green growth orientation and training to colleagues in respective institutions,” said Ric Enriquez, chief of Human Resource Development Service under the Philippines’ Department of Environment and Natural Resources which is supporting the undertaking.
He noted such strategy will contribute towards increasing knowledge and action on promoting green growth nationwide.
”Action for green growth can be incorporated in the institutions’ respective work plans,” he said.
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