Climate Change

PHILIPPINE climate-change Imperative The sooner we realize that disasters are never natural but always a product of hazard and history, that a people’s vulnerability is not a given of place but derivative from the past, the better we are likely to understand what fate might await us in a world of changing climate.

A strong typhoon can be deadly even to the best prepared, what more to those who least expect it? Tropical Storm Sendong, which has now killed more than 650 people in northern Mindanao, only proves this.

Empowering the Filipino People “To achieve the Millennium Development Goals and keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius, all countries must ACT NOW.”   — UN SecGen Ban Ki-Moon, 01 November 2011

DURBAN, South Africa: Storms and droughts that have unleashed dangerous surges in food prices could be a “grim foretaste” of what lies ahead when climate change bites more deeply, Oxfam said on Monday.

Developing countries that can’t afford traditional CO2 mitigation measures can now embrace black-carbon reduction In 1997, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Kyoto Protocol _ an agreement among signatory states to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Next year, however, the Clean Development Mechanism, a system of carbon credits in which each credit…

PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. C. Aquino III has approved a comprehensive plan to address the impact of climate change that will be submitted to a United Nations forum by the end of the month in a bid to access global aid, an official said yesterday.

LEGAZPI CITY: Ten years from now, the Philippines’ climate shall have gone from bad to worse which imperil food security, livelihood, infrastructures, peoples’ lives and limbs as the adverse impact of global warming has reached the tipping point according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical and Services Administration (PAGASA) officials here.

PARIS: A third of humanity, mostly in Africa and South Asia, face the biggest risks from climate change but rich nations in northern Europe will be least exposed, according to a report released on Wednesday.

A total of P100 billion has been tagged by budget  activists in the 2012 National Expenditure Program as potential climate change-related funds which can be used to strengthen the country’s institutional capacity to adapt to climate change next year.

Right. Reforming our investment laws is not a silver bullet. I don’t think advocates ever said that. There are other things to do and reform to make the Philippines investment friendly. Removing rules that discriminate against direct foreign investments is a good starting point for reforms.

Citing heavy losses to life and property due to recent typhoons, the Philippines pushed for the inclusion of climate change in the agenda of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

The Philippine delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) round of talks in Panama said on Wednesday that Filipinos are fighting for survival amid worsening climate change, citing the two recent typhoons that battered the country consecutively in a span of just two weeks.

MANILA, Philippines – In the wake of substantial damage to agriculture and infrastructure from Typhoon Pedring estimated nearly P1 billion, the Climate Change Commission plans to discuss with local governments the potential economic impacts of disasters to communities.

A climate change coalition has called on President Benigno Aquino III to make drastic steps and take immediate actions to lead the Southeast Asia in its efforts to quell the effects of climate change.

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, August 21 (PIA) — There is no denying it, the world is changing, and changing fast, foremost of which is, the world’s climate. Every nation, every nook in the world is gearing up to meet the challenge of climate change, and Pampanga is no exception.

MANILA, Philippines – After causing disasters, climate change is expected to bring about a new breed of jobs for Filipinos.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The AsianCitiesAdapt, a project that brings together science and policy to address climate change issues in four pre-identified cities each in the Philippines and India, was launched recently in this city.

BAGUIO CITY: Baguio-La Trinidad-Itogon-Sablan-Tuba-Tublay or BLIST should be taken as a complete unit to address over-population and map out the city’s plans to adapt to climate change.

LEGAZPI CITY: Students throughout Albay will be learning about the life-wrenching, impact of climate change beginning this school year.

MANILA, Philippines—Years of unmitigated and destructive human activities have plunged the Philippines in a biodiversity “crisis” that could take decades to reverse, environment officials said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile welcomed yesterday the program of President Aquino listing climate change as among the top five issues that will require coordinated action and budgetary intervention from Malacañang.

ASEAN strategy to deal with climate change has been formulated in ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC), one of the three ASEAN pillars.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Loren Legarda said the other day that she will look into the possibility of using part of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Fund as source of finances for the country’s climate change adaptation programs and projects.

World Bank Contacts: In Manila: David Llorito (632) 917-3047 E-mail: comphil@worldbank.org Erika Lacson (632) 917-3013 E-mail: elacson@worldbank.org In Washington: Carl Hanlon (202) 473-8087 E-mail: chanlon@worldbank.org MANILA, MAY 3, 2011—The World Bank supports the Philippines’ climate change agenda and will highlight the country’s climate change action plan in international forums and future global talks on climate…

MANILA, Philippines – Secretary Mary Ann Lucille Sering of the Climate Change Commission (CCC) stressed that the message of the Earth Hour event is really a long-term call against global warming.

MANILA, Philippines – The LGU Summit on Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in the Philippines for Municipal LGUs held in Davao City gathered local government officials, scientists and other development partners to share practical information addressing the challenge of climate change.

Concluded from yesterday A little more than 10 years ago, it was the Philippines that led 133 other nations in acknowledging the threat of this global phenomenon.

There looms a peril far more threatening in scope and magnitude to the political unrest in the Middle East and other parts of the world. And if the recent floods and landslides that struck the Bicol Regions, Visayas, and Mindanao are any indication, it would seem that the alarm sounded by the Philippines’ foremost policy-making…

MANILA, Philippines – The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) and the Climate Change Commission (CCC) signed yesterday an agreement that aims to integrate disaster preparedness plans in the programs of local governments.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Extreme rainstorms and snowfalls have grown substantially stronger, two studies suggest, with scientists for the first time finding the telltale fingerprints of man-made global warming on downpours that often cause deadly flooding.