PH eyes climate-smart health sector

THE government is looking into measures that will will make the Philippine health sector climate-smart.

There is urgency for such mea and threatened by climate change, said Climate Change Commission ( CCC) Vice- Chairperson Emmanuel de Guzman.

“Climate change is a health concern,” he said on Monday at a forum in Metro Manila during - nual Climate Change Consciousness Week (CCCW).

He added the health sector’s including those in hospitals, are contributing to climate - tions are needed to mitigate the discharges while adapting to the changing climate.

Climate change can negate years, de Guzman added.

“The health sector should really go green,” he said.

CCC green hospital project consultant Linda Milan acknowledged the need for a climate-smart Philippine health sector.

“A ruined planet can’t sustain life so the health sector must stagnant,” she said at the forum.

She added that since technical experts and funds for such purpose into what adaptation and mitigation measures to prioritize for its bid to be climate-smart.

Philippine Hospital Association (PHA) president Huberto Lapuz assured his group’s support for such a bid.

“PHA is committed to proac solutions within its network,” he said at the forum.

He said PHA is also prepared to work with CCC and other stakeholders concerned on promoting sustainability.

“With unbridled climate change, most part beginning and ending in portals of our hospitals,” he said.

Proclamation 1667 series thereafter as “Global Warming and CCCW.”

Climate change’s threats require “urgent and thoughtful participation of our citizens as well as the - lamation 1667 stated.

The proclamation enjoins all

Climate change impact on the Philippines

Climate change’s impacts on the Philippines are increasing the on- rise, according to experts.

The Paris Agreement aims to strengthen worldwide response to climate change by keeping global temperature rise this century well further to 1.5°C.

- on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said mean annual temperature from 1990 to 2100 under a high GHG emissions scenario.

Without significant climate and under a high emissions - ple may be affected annually between 2070 and 2100.

Under a high emissions sce warned heat- related deaths in persons aged 65 years and deaths per 100,000 population by 2080.

The estimated baseline is one death per 100,000 population annually between 1961 and 1990,

“Rapid reduction in emissions could limit heat-related deaths in per 100,000 in 2080,” both clari