By former Senator Loren Legarda
On the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity, I join the call for a common understanding of a better normal, an agreement for greener
path, and a new green compact for an economy that does not take what cannot be put back.
Many of us must change our life goals and our dreams so that humanity can collectively address the threat to our biodiversity with expertise and knowledge. We have to have more biologists, ecologists, circular economy experts
, renewable energy and zero waste professionals who can help us achieve our dream for a fresh start for the planet past 2030. We must be part of the necessary change that must happen this decade, the UN Decade of Ecological Restoration. We need to have transformative changes across economic, social, political and technological factors.
This is why the passage of the Philippine Environment and Natural Capital Accounting System Bill, that I authored in the House of Representatives, is sorely needed. We have valued priceless services offered by nature as free thus far in our trajectory for economic progress. What is happening is that our economy is contracting drastically as well, no thanks to the pandemic but also no thanks to the deterioration of nature. We can no longer operate our economies as if nature’s gifts are limitless.
Most especially, I am confidently and optimistically claiming that our youth today, who make up majority of the population, would be the driving force of innovation in this decade. I am counting on the young people to transitioning us from being unwitting destroyers of our own habitat to nurturers of our home planet
, knowledgeable about the impacts, values and costs of what we are losing or gaining in our quests for livelihoods and enterprises.
Happy International Day for Biological Diversity! Let us all #bepartofthesolution.
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