Bauang has been suffering from the impact of climate change 'and these impacts will grow more severe if we will not act in unison,' says Mayor Eulogio Clarence Martin de Guzman. Bauang is the latest local government to declare a state of climate emergency.
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Bauang Mayor Eulogio Clarence Martin de Guzman III issued the declaration and the order creating the Municipal Climate Emergency Action Council. Bauang, a coastal municipality in La Union, is the first local government in Northern Luzon to declare a state of climate emergency, joining the ranks of Bacolod City, Cebu City, Makati City, Quezon City, and Tolosa, Leyte.in July, along with Bacnotan, Bagulin, Burgos, Caba, and Naguilian. As floods damaged resorts and grape farms, local officials placed the municipality under a state of calamity on July 25.
“We must protect our coastal integrity and fragile ecosystems from reclamation, fossil fuel extraction, and other damaging activities,” read the order, signed on the same day of the declaration. Responding to the declaration, KIPLU president Crisanto Palabay expressed solidarity with the local officials. He said the group supports the LGU’s push “to shift to cleaner, reliable, affordable and sustainable energy .”
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