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Marcos: 'Addressing climate change is our collective responsibility'
By ANNA FELICIA BAJO,GMA Integrated News The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should strengthen its cooperation mechanisms to attain environmental stability and address the climate crisis, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said on Friday.
Marcos said addressing the adverse effects of climate change is the "collective responsibility" of all nations, noting that developed nations should play a bigger role in global efforts to mitigate the risks.
"Addressing climate change is our collective responsibility, and developed countries should play a bigger role in global efforts to mitigate its risks, its effects, [and] its damage and loss," Marcos said during his speech at the 41st ASEAN Summit Retreat in Cambodia.
"Developing countries are more vulnerable, lose more when these climate shocks hit, and have fewer resources to cope with the adverse effects of these shocks," he added.
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Marcos also raised the need to enhance climate resilience by "using new agricultural technologies" in order to solidify food security cooperation and food self-sufficiency in the region.
"We need to shift our paradigm from the old, traditional farming methods to climate-smart agricultural systems, to better shield us against the ongoing adverse effects of climate change," the President said.
He said his administration has committed to ensuring the Philippines' resiliency and adaptation to the "new normal" of climate change, adding that this is among the government’s priorities.
"The measures we seek to undertake hopefully will enable us to become smarter, more responsible, [and] more sustainable in all that we do," Marcos said. — VBL, GMA Integrated News