Region 8 coops to tackle climate change

TACLOBAN CITY, Oct. 12 (PNA) –- In line with the Cooperative Month celebration this October, PH Haiyan Advocacy Cooperative and Climate Change Commission (CCC) will hold the first Regional Cooperative Conference on climate change adaptation and mitigation on Oct. 13 to 14, 2016.

The two-day event will be held at the Leyte Academic Center in Palo, Leyte in partnership with the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) with support from the electric cooperatives of Eastern Visayas.

The program will focus on providing a better understanding of the continuing changes to the environment caused by climate change.

It will also tackle the various methods and programs that each local government units and organizations undertake to enable communities to adapt to the environs and way of life.

Key officials are invited as resource speakers such as Climate Change Commission Secretary Emmanuel de Guzman; Senator Cynthia Villar, Senate committee chairperson on environment and natural Resources, DENR Secretary Gina Lopez and Senator Loren Legarda, Senate committee chairperson on climate change.

Palo, Leyte Mayor Remedios Petilla will give the welcome remarks and Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla will give the opening address.

Catbalogan City Mayor Stephanie Uy-Tan will discuss on best practices and learning of a local government unit; Eulita Casas, chairman of the PH Haiyan Advocacy Cooperative will talk about the local civil society initiative PH Haiyan program of Yolanda survivors in Tacloban City with Tacloban City Mayor Cristina G. Romualdez giving the response.

The two-day event will be attended by cooperatives, local government units, academe, media and civil societies. (PNA)
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