Outgoing Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua is confident the incoming Marcos government will put equal focus – if not more — on the impact of climate change on industries and sustainable development particularly in the use of smart infrastructure.
NEDA assistant secretary Roderick M. Planta, for his part, said it “will really makes sense” if smart infrastructure is operationalizing the sustainable development goals or SDGs and the Paris Climate Change actions. “This will feature in the next PDPs,” he added. Based on the 2021 Climate Risk Index, the Philippines is the fourth most affected by extreme climate change disturbances while the Philippine Statistics Authority said 98 percent of total damages between 2010 and 2019 are “caused by climate-related hazards”.
Chua said they are supporting the electric vehicle law and that NEDA is “in line with proposal to have a tax on single-use plastics especially water bottles because these has reached the tummies of turtles as I’ve been told.”