On June 23, Clean Air 10 Celebration was held at Skyline Riverbend Hotel in Marikina, Metro Manila. The theme of this celebration is “Ligtas Hangin, Ligtas Klima” and the topic is "Conference on Empowering LGU's to clean the air and address climate change through partnerships". Clean Air 10 is organized by four governmental developments [Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)] and and Partnership for Clean Air (PCA). More than 250 participants from national government agencies, local government units (LGUs), non-governmental organization (NGOs) and academe, private sector, civil society and concerned individuals joined the celebration.
The aims of this celebration are to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Clean Air Act in the Philippines and overview the act implementation in the past ten years. Key presentations were firstly addressed in the morning. During the lunch time, PCA and CAI-Aisa center launched “Ligtas Hangin” campaign. “Ligtas Hangin” means save the air. There are at least three impressions from the logo (see below):
1. The air swirl forms a smile, because clean air means healthy air
2. The shape of the face can also represent a house (indoor air), the tailpipe of a vehicle (mobile sources), the silhouette of a factory (stationary sources), or the border between two territories (transboundary air pollution)
3. Air pollution is linked to climate change, so the swirl can also depict an approaching typhoon
For details, please http://ligtashangin.blogspot.com/
In the afternoon, all participants were separated into five discussion groups (Awareness raising and Networking, Capacity Building, Funding, Policy and Technologies). I took part in a policy discussion group and realized the national air quality status, the existing air quality action plans, and boundaries of these plans in the Philippines.
By the end of the day, one representative from each group presented the views. The ten-point actions (Clean Air 10) were finally summarized and the organization encouraged the governments, LGUs, NGOs, academe, private sectors to implement the actions to celebrate "the clean air" in 10th anniversary. This celebration will be continued in November.
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