President Marcos highlights the climate change issues the country is facing and notes the improvement of evacuation centers around the country. #SONA2023
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00:00 The building blocks of progressive, livable, and sustainable communities will never be complete
00:06 without appropriate and responsible action to mitigate and to adapt to the effects of climate change.
00:13 We can never lose sight of our responsibility to the future.
00:18 The economic agenda cannot and will not ever be incompatible with our climate change agenda.
00:25 Climate change is now an important criterion in our integral national policies in planning,
00:30 decision making, up to the implementation of programs.
00:34 The potential advantages of such enlightened policies extend to jobs and livelihood,
00:39 with the unlocking of the development of the green and blue economies.
00:44 We have learned many painful lessons from past disasters,
00:48 but we continue to be alert and prepared in our disaster response.
00:53 It has in fact been commented that sometimes we are over prepared for such natural disasters.
00:59 Well, to continue that, we are reorganizing our response teams to make them more adaptable,
01:05 agile, and effective in times of calamities and crises, with a clear unity of command.
01:12 Our evacuation centers are being upgraded to withstand the greater forces of the new normal of extreme weather,
01:19 as well as other natural and man-made disasters.
01:23 Furthermore, new evacuation centers are also being built, of which 55 have already been completed.
01:31 We remain committed to global decarbonization goals and the reduction of our carbon footprint.
01:37 We preserve and protect the treasure that is our forests.
01:41 Their value to the environment, to the ecology, and the economy is incalculable.