Is playing by the rules a bad thing? For DENR Secretary Toni Yulo-Loyzaga, this is how she got work done in the past. Will this be enough to tide over the Philippines in a burning world? Read this MarcosYear1 report by Rappler's Iya Gozum:
MANILA, Philippines – On an early Thursday morning in June, she was already up at 6 am for a Manila Bay cleanup event.
“I’ve been told we have to start doing it, and that’s what we will do,” she said in response to these criticisms in her first one-on-one media interview nine months into office. To thrive under crisis, Loyzaga has so far played by the rules, as she had always done so in the past. Loyzaga studied political science at the Ateneo de Manila University and then eventually took her master’s in government at Georgetown University in Washington DC in the United States.
Loyzaga also served as president of the National Resilience Council, a science and technology-based public-private partnership that supports the government, communities, the academe, and the private sector, from 2017 to 2022., a nonprofit organization working on forest conservation, and a member of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Asia Pacific Science Technology Advisory Group.
When she took the reins of the DENR, one of the first things she did was hold a multistakeholder forum with the heads of the largest conglomerates in the country, scientists, thought leaders, and advocacy groups last October to tap into the different social and economic perspectives of the department’s work.
David met Loyzaga around 13 years ago when they worked together during a major flood event in Mindoro. He described her as a leader who is a “firm believer of science-based and data-driven policies.” MEETING. Loyzaga is flanked by Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos and Defense Secretary Gibo Teodoro during a sectoral meeting on June 27, 2023 at the Malacañang. The DENR gives updates about the office on the National Environment and Natural Resources Geospatial Database. DENR Undersecretary Carlos Primo David joins Loyzaga in the meeting. Photo by Yummie Dingding/PPA Pool
Loyzaga also recently reaffirmed the Philippines’ commitment to the Sendai Framework – a disaster management framework adopted by governments around the world – during the United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Midterm Review in New York last May.But people directly affected by the destruction of the country’s biodiversity want to see more of an advocate than a bureaucrat in Loyzaga. to the DENR to demand the cancelation of the mining permit of Altai Philippines Mining Corporation.
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