SENATOR Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. filed a measure that will authorize Higher Education Curriculum Development and Graduate Training in Advance Energy and Green Building Technologies.

Senate Bill 1212 or the proposed Green Energy Education Act of 2022 seeks to require the Department of Energy to partner with the Commission on Higher Education to award grants to university programs related to the design and construction of higher performance buildings and technologies.

The measure also mandates the DoE to give priority to university programs in design, architecture, landscape architecture and city, regional or urban planning.

“This would improve the ability of engineers, architects, landscape architects and planners to cooperate on the incorporation of advanced technologies during the design and construction of buildings,” Revilla said.

“It’s been proven that global temperatures will continue to rise over time. Droughts and heat waves will increase. Disastrous storms will intensify. Ecosystems will collapse. Sea levels will rise. And the product of all these effects is the culmination of the suffering of the future,” the senator said in the explanatory note of his bill.

“It is our children who will suffer the consequences, not us. And it is our duty to protect the youth, our future,” he added.