(Loren addressing members of the diplomatic corps during Luntiang Pilipinas’ tree-planting at the Luneta Thursday)
I can sense a common motivation in us, which is to protect the environment for all of humanity. I can also sense an urgent willingness to act coupled with a unifying call that is succinctly expressed by this year’s theme of the World Environment Day – Your Planet Needs You – Unite to Combat Climate Change.
Each of the country we represent has its own view on climate change, but the thing that is common in our varying views, though, is that climate change ranks high in our priorities. Surely, climate change threatens the very life of our planet and the existence of humanity as a whole.
But I am optimistic that the world can hurdle these challenges successfully by means of a two-pronged formula. The first involves national action by national leaders who must come up with effective policies that would be implemented by both state agencies and the people. The second takes place across borders. Leaders must transcend the local and reach out to their counterparts in different parts of the world to effect actions internationally.
It is, therefore, clear that the great question of the future will be whether or not different people from different nations are capable of uniting.
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