QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 1160)
It declares November 25 of every year as the “National Day for Youth in Climate Action.”
Section 13, Article II (youth role in nation-building) and Section 16, Article II (right to balanced and healthful ecology) of the 1987 Constitution.
RA 8044 created the NYC to provide leadership in formulating policies and directions for youth promotion and development programs and activities, including encouraging youth participation in public and civic affairs.
The CCC is created as the sole policy-making body to coordinate, monitor, and evaluate government programs and action plans relating to climate change.
It is the country’s climate change adaptation and mitigation agenda for 2011 to 2028, and it was formulated by the CCC in consultation with international organizations.
It seeks to strengthen disaster risk reduction and management and climate change initiatives for youth, especially humanitarian response during calamities.
NYC and CCC, with other government agencies, NGOs, and international partners, launched #NowPH as a comprehensive advocacy to empower youth in raising public consciousness on climate-change science and climate-resilient/smart lifestyles.
The NYC, in coordination with the CCC and other concerned agencies.
It directs all agencies and instrumentalities of the National Government, including GOCCs, to collaborate and participate in advocating and implementing the programs and activities.
They are encouraged (not mandated) to collaborate and cooperate with the NYC in advocating and implementing the relevant programs and activities.
The text notes the Philippines’ high risk and vulnerability to natural disasters, and it links youth initiatives to disaster risk reduction, humanitarian response, and climate adaptation/mitigation.
It ties youth empowerment in nation-building and public affairs (Art. II, Sec. 13) to the protection of a balanced and healthful ecology (Art. II, Sec. 16).
From 2011 to 2028.
From 2012 to 2016.