Guiuan, first Ecotown in Eastern Visayas

GUIUAN, EASTERN SAMAR—The Climate Change Commission (CCC) and the local government unit of this town formally launched the first  “eco-town framework” in the Visayas area by way of signing a memorandum of agreement to build an economically stable and ecologically sustainable town.

Commissioner Naderev M. Saño said the setting up of eco-towns is a local implementation mechanism in the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) which provides direction for sustainable economic growth for 2011 to 2028.

“At the local level, implementation of the NCCAP will be packaged using the concept of ecologically stable and economically resilient towns or eco-towns,” Saño said in an interview with The Freeman.