Pasig City, Philippine Winner of WWF One Planet City Challenge 2018
Pasig City Named Philippine Winner of WWF’s One Planet City Challenge 2018
Pasig City has been declared as the Philippine National Capital of the 2017-2017 edition of World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) One Planet City Challenge (OPCC). This is a biennial global challenge that recognizes cities for developing infrastructure, housing, transport and mobility solutions to power the global transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. 2018 had 133 cities representing 23 countries accepting the Challenge.
These are Pasig’s actions that made it a winner that reflected the “sustainable transport and mobility” theme of this run of the OPCC and have made the city eligible for the Global OPCC Prize
- concrete and comprehensive actions to reduce its carbon emissions, particularly its plan to reduce traffic emissions and congestions
- its targeted actions around renewable energy and energy efficiency
- the city’s strong community engagement and its adaptation actions, such as the cleaning of the Pasig River
- its strong alignment of actions to emissions reduction and execution of said actions.
Seven other Philippine cities have successfully qualified to join the 2017-2018 OPCC based on the criteria announced early in 2017:
- Batangas
- Catbalogan
- Makati
- Parañaque
- San Carlos
- Tagum
- Zamboanga
The cities of Makati, Pasig, and San Carlos went on to become national finalists and participated in the “We Love Cities” global campaign from May 7 until the end of June 2018.
The City of Jakarta bagged the top plum in the campaign, which is a social media contest that is aimed at inspiring and engaging the respective citizens of the national finalists across the globe for support, votes, and ideas for improvement while Pasig came in second.
