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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, March 2, 2015 |
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 ‘It’s easier to make laws than implement them’ Walk held vs. fossil fuel Former Bais mayor open to options in 2016 |
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EX-SOLON SAYS
‘It’s easier to make laws
than implement them’
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
A former legislator, who is the main author of the Clean Air Act, said he has realized that it is easier to make laws than to implement them, especially those on the environment.
Nereus Acosta, Presidential Adviser for Environmental Protection and general manager of the Laguna Lake Development Authority, said being in the executive, it is more difficult to implement laws on environment than to craft them.
If given the chance to come back as legislator, he said, he will push for a massive review and revisiting of environmental standards to make them realistic, such as policies on emission standards, and water standards, among others.
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Walk held vs. fossil fuel The “Global Divestment Day, Challenges Fossil Fuel Industry” symbolic walk, from the Cathedral Bell Tower to the Provincial Capitol in the City recently, was joined by environmentalists, civil society groups, churches, teachers and students in Dumaguete. Southeast Asia coordinator of 350.org Zeph Repollo, said, they emitted 565 more Gigatones carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming agreed in the Copenhagen accord, but the fossil fuel that corporations now have in their reserves would result in emitting 2,795 Gigatones carbon dioxide – five times more from the 2°C target. Repollo also said that fossil fuel companies are set to burn it all, unless they join and stop them. |
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Former Bais mayor open Paste article here. |
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