Senators chastised DENR Sec. Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga in November 2023. She allegedly had spent P1.1 billion “jet setting” to world climate summits.
Why that expense, environmentalists wonder. Yulo -Loyzaga and aides were absent from COP27, the 2022 Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Egypt. In 2023’s COP28 in Dubai, she sidelined NGOs in favor of big businesses that sponsored the Philippine Pavilion.
The government sequestered YKR in 1986, on suspicion of ill-gotten Marcos crony wealth. As cases ensued, the court appointed Yulo-Loyzaga as executor of the family estate including YKR. Upon joining the Cabinet in 2022, she was questioned for conflict of interest.DENR has flunked under her, critics add. Deforestation accelerated in 2022, with the country losing 84,500 hectares of tree cover. That’s equivalent to 54.4 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Eight hundred thousand liters of crude threatened coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass, fisheries and 24,000 fisherfolk. Thirty-nine weeks later, damages to nature and coastal communities totaled P41.2 billion, said the Center for Energy, Ecology and Development. DENR acted too late against a cult in the mountains of Surigao. Past admins had granted the cult 353 hectares inside a protected area. Yulo-Loyzaga closed it only after senators exposed the erection of concrete chapels, dorms, canteens and guard houses where rape, child abuse and violence allegedly occurred.
Employers nowadays complain about the “new generation” of employees who behave more like transient or transit passengers at an airport rather than long-term staff in companies.
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