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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Senator Loren Legarda, a known environment champion in the Upper Chamber, remains confident the Philippines will ratify the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.</span></b></div>
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Legarda said it is "unfair or rash" to judge that the country will not ratify the pact or blame the delay on President Rodrigo Duterte, when only 10 of the 33 government agencies required to submit their certificates of concurrence have done so.</div>
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"When the 23 remaining agencies of government have put it together through the Climate Change Commission, then the Office of the President, the Executive Secretary can give their legal opinion," she explained on ANC's Headstart.</div>
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After the President approves it, she said the agreement will have to go to the Senate for debate before they issue their certificate of concurrence.</div>
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Although the pact takes effect on Friday, Legarda maintained that even if the Philippines ratifies it a day or a week after, "we will be part of this global, historic agreement."</div>
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"I am optimistic that everyone in government will see the importance of being part of the discussions, to be able to access the technical and financial assistance, and to know that our 70% reductions of greenhouse emissions are pegged or contingent or dependent on technical and financial [assistance]," she said.</div>
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She said she had reached out to the departments and agencies, giving them memoranda and briefers on the issue and discussing it during committee hearings, and "they’re unanimous in agreement with the ratification of the Agreement. There’s [where] my confidence is coming from."</div>
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Among them were Cabinet secretaries like Gina Lopez of Environment and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Piñol of Agriculture, Benjamin Diokno of Budget, and Ernesto Pernia of the National Economic Development Authority, according to Legarda.</div>
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"I’m not only hopeful; I am optimistic and confident because I see the background," she said, citing that less than a month after the Philippines signed the agreement in April, an election was held in May; then a new government came into office in July, with new Cabinet members appointed in August.</div>
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The Climate Change Commission, then, only began getting the certificates of concurrence from all the 33 government departments in September and October.</div>
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"It’s a matter of really giving the president the complete staff work—giving him the papers, seeing the legal opinion of his lawyers, getting the concurrence of the agencies of government," she said.</div>
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"I am certain he’s (Duterte) sincere, he wants what’s good for the people and he’s just batting for climate justice," she added.</div>
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SOURCE: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/04/16/duterte-batting-for-climate-justice-legarda">ABS-CBN</a></div>
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PARIS - Alcohol consumption caused more than 700,000 new cancer cases and around 366,000 cancer deaths in 2012, mainly in rich countries, according to data reported Wednesday to the World Cancer Congress in Paris.</h3>
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Comparing the cancer risk of people who drink, to that of people who do not, researchers calculated that alcohol was responsible for an estimated five percent of all new cancer cases, and 4.5 percent of deaths per year.<br /><br />"A large part of the population is unaware that cancer can be caused by alcohol," study co-author Kevin Shield of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), told AFP of the preliminary report, not yet published.<br /><br />Alcohol was most strongly linked to new breast cancer diagnoses—more than one in four of all alcohol-attributable cancer cases, the researchers found, followed by colorectal cancer at 23 percent.<br /><br />For breast cancer, particularly, it was clear that "the risk increases with the dose" of alcohol, said Shield.<br /><br />Measuring alcohol's contribution to cancer deaths, the researchers found it was most strongly linked to esophagus cancer fatalities, followed by colorectal cancer.<br /><br />The IARC, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), lists alcohol as a "group 1 carcinogen," which means it is considered cancer-causing, though Shield said the mechanism was "not exactly known."<br /><br />Globally, the burden was highest in north America, Australia and Europe, particularly eastern Europe, but this was slowly changing as people in developing nations start imbibing more, the researchers said.<div>
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PARIS - Alcohol consumption caused more than 700,000 new cancer cases and around 366,000 cancer deaths in 2012, mainly in rich countries, a...