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Any plans for this Valentine’s Day? The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) may just have something for you.

While climate activists across the globe are calling on governments to adopt systemic ways to address the worsening state of the planet’s climate crisis, the DENR came up with a gimmick that they believe to be a “measure to address climate change” – for people to hug a tree.

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