President Aquino, on his speech before students and the academe of St. Paul University in Manila, has expressed deep concern on the critical level of pollution in the metropolis as he lamented about marveling at a dark, starless sky at night. Joined by Secretary Ramon J. P. Paje of the Department Environment and Natural Resources, vowed to bring down to a healthier level the amount of smoke and dust particles suspended in the air can which, he said, can be attained by improving the emission of motor vehicles, and setting the limit values for vehicles fitted with direct injection type diesel engines.
The program of Paje to control, if not totally eliminate, air pollution in the country’s environment conforms with the objectives of Clean Air Initiatives-Asia (CAI-Asia), a multilateral endeavor formed in 2011 by the Asian Development Bank, the US-Asia Environmental Partnership and the World Bank as a flagship initiative for improved air quality.
Another program of the Secretary whose ultimate aim is to cut the five million tricycles in the country to become zero-emission vehicles. Pushing the goal further is to make the most, if not all diesel-run Public Utility Jeepneys to run on electric power. These efforts and steps towards helping to achieve a cleaner air has garnered praise from other countries. The Philippines has already made a lot of progress in its efforts to clean the air since the enactment of the Clean Air Act.
Paje, also was proud to say that the Philippines' Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is exceptionally high with a rating of 71.7 points in contrast to the standard of the Asia Pacific regional coverage which is 54.3. The EPI ranks coutries or regions on 25 different performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories. One of those categories is the impact on humans concerning public health and ecosystem vitality. Higher EPI rating means that the country or region is closer to achieving it environmental policy.
Another program of the Secretary whose ultimate aim is to cut the five million tricycles in the country to become zero-emission vehicles. Pushing the goal further is to make the most, if not all diesel-run Public Utility Jeepneys to run on electric power. These efforts and steps towards helping to achieve a cleaner air has garnered praise from other countries. The Philippines has already made a lot of progress in its efforts to clean the air since the enactment of the Clean Air Act.
Paje, also was proud to say that the Philippines' Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is exceptionally high with a rating of 71.7 points in contrast to the standard of the Asia Pacific regional coverage which is 54.3. The EPI ranks coutries or regions on 25 different performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories. One of those categories is the impact on humans concerning public health and ecosystem vitality. Higher EPI rating means that the country or region is closer to achieving it environmental policy.
I am hoping that the efforts of the government in providing cleaner air will still continue and made a lot of progress as it has been already been for the past few days because a clean air is everyone's necessity.
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I really hope these promises are kept. I guess we'll find out soon enough if they really plan to implement this or they are just full of hot air.
-Adrian William B. Tan
Instead of depending on the government in taking action to improve air quality, we citizens of this country should also participate in improving air quality. There are various ways for us to do this such as minimizing CO2 emission of our vehicles.
ReplyDeleteEven though our EPI is higher than most of other asian countries, most of our population aren't aware of this "green earth" chain of projects our government is trying to implement. I still see random people burn their trash and stuff (pagsisiga)and most of the time, plastics are involved in the trash.
ReplyDeleteJose Carlos A. Labao