“Fight for your forest, trees, and rivers…” – Malacañang Exec

By September 14, 2014Governance, News

CAPITOL NEWS

“If Pangasinan is your home, join your leaders and fight for your forests, your trees, your rivers, and your fishes.”

This was the challenge posted by Presidential Communications Operations Office Undersecretary and Philippine Information Agency Director-General Jose Mari M. Oquinena to the students of the Pangasinan State University (PSU) in Lingayen who participated in the first-ever Climate Change Advocacy Campaign campus tour held September 10 at the Sison Auditorium here.

The undersecretary commended the leadership of Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. for transforming the Capitol building and its environs into a greener and cleanest workplace.

“What is natural for us is beauty and environment. I am fully amazed by what I saw in your Capitol building. It is very clean,” Usec Oquinena said as he added that what he saw manifests the kind of concern the present administration has in terms of environment protection.

According to him, climate change can possibly be addressed if all Filipinos start to apply the simple value called, ‘bayanihan.’ “It is possible to reverse the process if we all bond together,” the undersecretary disclosed as further noted that climate change is a result of a collective wrong which needs to be solved by a collective right.

Provincial Administrator Rafael Howard F. Baraan, on the other hand, said that the present administration is doing everything to institute among Pangasinense the love for environment.

The provincial administrator said Pangasinan is pro-environment even as he cited the provincial government since Gov. Espino assumed his post in July 2007 has initiated several innovations on environmental protection which earned numerous awards and citations for the province in terms of coastal resource management as well as Likas Yaman program.

“The future belongs to you (referring to the students). And we, the elders owe that future to you,” Baraan said.

When Baraan exclaimed: “You must protect the trees,” the students said in unison: “Yes, we will!” and a thunderous round of applause filled the Sison Auditorium.

The campus road show which is a joint venture of the PIA and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and anchored on the theme, “Strengthening partnership among communities for Climate Change Adaptation,” was highlighted with a talk proper or lecture, and an open forum. /RRB

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