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The Wood-Based
Industry’s Efforts Under the Arroyo
Administration
Speech of
Antonio C. Olizon, President, Philippine
Wood Producers Association
During the Ang Minera Award and The Sustainable
Development of Natural Resources
Rizal Hall, Malacanang
Palace, Manila
June 4, 2010
Sustaining
A Green Philippines
Her Excellency,
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, ladies
and gentlemen, good afternoon.
We thank our friends from DENR for this
opportunity to honor and update President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on the wood industry’s
contributions toward the sustainability
of our country’s natural resources
and environment.
By way of
introduction, let me state that the Philippine
Wood Producers Association or PWPA represents
the country’s wood-based industry.
Our members are engaged in natural forest
management, industrial tree plantation development,
and lumber, veneer, plywood and blockboard
manufacturing, which include finished articles
of wood such as doors, windows and builder’s
joinery.
We are
proud to say that members in the wood industry
have effectively managed and sustained todate
close to one million hectares of the country’s
15 million hectares of forestland.
Working
in partnership with the DENR under the Integrated
Forest Management Agreement or IFMA, our
members have persevered to maintain the
health and growth of our natural forests
and develop industrial tree plantations,
thus increasing the supply of wood products.
More than these, they have perpetuated our
forests and tree plantations, increasing
our country’s green cover which in
turn sequesters and stores carbon dioxide
(CO2) - our most effective weapon against
climate change.
Thank you,
Madame President, for giving priority to
the Climate Change Act. We are optimistic
that this law will strengthen efforts to
expand further our country’s forest
cover and will likewise broaden the public’s
awareness on the importance of sustainable
forests and the need to combat illegal logging.
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