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Feb 2016
Almighty and everlasting God, You made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures. Grant that, as we probe the mysteries of Your creation, we may come to know You more truly, and more surely fulfill our role in Your eternal purpose. In everything we do, O Lord, give us a desire to seek out the truth. Give us a willingness to heed the advice of others. Give us wisdom in reaching decisions. Give us faith to believe in our conclusions.......
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Prayer from the Adults (Rex San Diego, Head Teacher of Ismael Mathay Sr. High School)
Compassionate and loving God, You created a beautiful world for us to share. Give us the desire to live simply, so that our lives show Your generosity. You made us responsible for the earth: guide us so that those who come after us may enjoy Your creation. Merciful God, hear our prayer for a world that will respect the God-given rights of all. We dedicate ourselves to work for the rights of each human...
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The LGU Eco Champion Project: A Closer Look at LGUs Compliance to Environmental Laws and Regulations and Unique Efforts to Sustainability
Sr. Marvie Misolas, MM Project Leader The LGU Eco Champion is a national survey of LGU compliance to various Philippine environmental laws and regulations that aims to determine successes and gaps in its implementation. The project is a collaboration between EMB/DENR and Green Convergence. Project Concept Philippine environmental laws and regulations have varying levels of compliance. Environmental Management Bureau’s mandate is to set and implement metrics for environmental standards. LGUs are engines and enablers...
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Prayer from the Business Sector
Dear Lord, Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. Please bless this conference and all its participants. Guide us with Your goodness and mercy. Give us the resolve and commitment to protect Your creation. Grant us the courage to do Your will and enhance the environment. Make us instruments of Your will. Give us the courage and the wisdom to combat climate change, which is killing us all and Your creation. Thank You for...
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Prayer from the NGOs
God of Glory, God of Grace, we lament the destruction that our greed, consumerism, and endless pursuit of “more” have wrought upon Your beautiful creation. We repent for the misguided choices that we have made and the resulting fragility, devastation, and spoiling of Your earth, Your air, Your seas, and Your creatures. Open our eyes, Lord, that we might follow Your path. We pray for the preservation of wildlife habitats, for the strength of...
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Prayer from the Government
Almighty God & Father, we praise You and we thank You for the many blessings You have given us. With Your might, You created the earth and enriched it with Your providence. You have given us the earth to cultivate, so that we may gather its fruits to sustain life. Grant us O Lord, wisdom so that we in government can guide our people in recognizing Your gifts and making good and proper use...
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Twin Phoenix Project: Climate Smart Planning
MA. SUSAN RACHEL JOSE is the chief technical advisor for the Project Climate Twin Phoenix, a project that envisioned to be the first stage of a more comprehensive and long term capacity development program for cities and municipalities to manage risks from climate change and climate-related natural hazards. With technical assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and implementation by the Climate Change Commission (CCC),...
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Localizing GHG Inventory: Implications to LGUs
SANDEE G. RECABAR is a Senior Research Specialist of the Climate Change Office of the Philippine Climate Change Commission (CCC). She started working for the Commission in 2011 and serves as its lead technical focal person for climate change mitigation issues particularly GHG inventories, mitigation actions and MRV. She spearheaded the capacity building efforts for national government agencies on greenhouse gas inventories in preparation for the implementation of the Executive Order 174: Institutionalizing the...
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System of Rice Intensification: Climate Tolerant Endemic Crop
JESUS LAS MARIAS is an advocate of System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a method of planting and growing rice that reduces costs, increases yields, and avoids the use of agrochemicals. It has been successfully tested in more than 40 countries, and in almost all regions of the Philippines. SRI-Pilipinas is the network that actively promotes SRI trials among Philippine farmers. The network, System of Rice Intensification Philippines, includes farmers, NGO workers, academes and government...
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Budget Tagging for CCA / DRRM Projects
RONALDO U. TOLEDO is the Director of the Fiscal Planning Bureau (FPB) Department of Budget and Management (DBM). As the Director, he supervises the operations of the bureau in its conduct of fiscal policy research and planning, development of fiscal and budgeting frameworks, (including multi-year and annual budget ceilings and forward estimates), formulation of annual and quarterly whole-of-government allotment and cash release programs, and monitoring of macroeconomic developments and their impact on the budget....
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