ISLAND GARDEN CITY OF SAMAL- To heighten understanding and awareness
on climate change, the City Mayor’s Office – Public Information Section
and City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Division
conducted Climate Change Adaptation Seminar, slogan and poster making to
local government office representatives.
The activity
was dubbed as Department Info-Point Person (DIPPs) and selected high
school students from Babak, Samal and Kaputian on December 1-2.
The DIPPs are the information arm of the City Mayor’s Office- Public
Information Division in the different departments of the local
government particularly in providing updates to the City Mayor on the
office activities as well as in the gathering and dissemination of
information to co-employees and barangay constituents.
The seminar for the DIPPs and high school students hopes to enhance
their awareness on climate change; adaptation, preparedness and
mitigation strategies and solutions. Specifically, the activity aims to
provide better understanding of climate change causes and effects ,
greenhouse gases accumulated in the atmosphere due to human activities
and rapid industrialization and understanding reasons on the causes of
occurrence of various calamities.
“Education is adaptation” , Project Officer for the Environment
Education Unit of World Wild Fund for Nature – Philippines and resource
person of the climate change seminar, Ruthie Maye Padilla said.
Padilla said their organization spearheads practical solutions to
help the country adapt to climate change, secure food and water
resources, switch to renewable energy sources and infuse sustainability
into the lives and businesses of Filipinos. She said their
organization’s mission is to build a future in which people live in
harmony with nature.
The climate change seminar for DIPPs and high school students
expected to enhance understanding and adaptation of participants on
climate change and be able to formulate slogans and posters about the
topic which will be developed as advocacy materials for distribution to
barangays, schools and offices in Island Garden City of Samal.
The first day of the seminar were for the DIPPs wherein they were
given lecture on climate change and brief input on slogan making. On the
second day, this for the high school students, wherein they were given
input on climate change and brief input on poster making and they were
asked to produce a poster out of the slogans prepared by the DIPPs as
their output on the first day of the seminar.
The local government has been taking steps to cope with the changes
brought about by climate change preparedness, mitigation, response and
development of vital policies. (Samal CIO)
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