GLACC, Bacolod ink Memorandum of Cooperation
BACOLOD CITY -- The Global Legal Action on Climate Change (GLACC) led by its convenor Atty. Antonio Oposa Jr. presented recently a Memorandum of Cooperation with the City Government of Bacolod led by Mayor Evelio Leonardia.
Atty. Oposa met last Tuesday with various barangay leaders at the Masskara Function Hall, New Government Center to discussed the role of every barangay leaders in the implementation of the solid waste program by way of displaying its political will through legal action.
Under the Memorandum of Cooperation, the "first party" which is the GLACC will initiate a petition movement - a movement of and by the Citizens of the World to petition their leaders to seriously address the clear, present, and ongoing impacts of climate change and global heating.
Oposa claimed that the petition movement is based on the highest law -- the Law of Nature -- and the right, and instinct, of self-preservation and self-perpetuation and on the basic principles of International Law laid out by the United Nation (UN) Framework on Climate Change.
Last June 5, 2009, Bacolod City received such kind of Petition from the GLACC on the matter of the status of the compliance of the Solid Waste Management Law.
It was stipulated under this Memorandum of Cooperation that both parties, GLACC and Bacolod City, will agree to cooperate with each other in the fight against clear and present dangers posed by Climate Change and Global Heating.
Leonardia, in his capacity as City Mayor of Bacolod, commits to fully implement the Solid Waste Management Law and to exercise the political will to make Bacolod City a Model City for Solid Waste Management. The Memorandum of Cooperation will be valid and legal upon the ratification of the Sangguniang Panglungsod.