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South Cotabato is the first Mindanao LGU to receive conferment for DRR-climate change plan -South Cotabato Government(Researched by Isaiah Micaello D. Mansilla)

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URL: https://southcotabato.gov.ph/south-cotabato-is-the-first-mindanao-lgu-to-receive-conferment-for-drr-climate-change-plan/

TITLE: South Cotabato is the first Mindanao LGU to receive conferment for DRR-climate change plan

AUTHOR: South Cotabato Government

DATE PUBLISHED: November 17, 2021

KEY INFO: This article talks about South Cotabato being the very first Mindanao LGU to receive conferment for their Climate change plan, it also highlighted the significant progress they have made toward meaningful climate action. Stating how developing climate change programs, projects, and activities are essential to resilience to climate change.

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Koronadal City-The nine-year Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation enhanced Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan of South Cotabato was approved in a virtual conferment, the first local government unit to be approved by the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development.

On Tuesday, Governor Reynaldo Tamayo, Jr. laid out the development roadmap of South Cotabato in a virtual presentation to the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD).

"The significant progress made by the province is working toward meaningful climate action," the governor said.

Emmanuel Jumilla, Provincial Planning and Development Officer-charge said, the Research, Planning and Programming Division took three years to finally lay down the plan after a series of community consultations and meetings with local counterparts, non- government organizations and national agencies.

"Local government units are tasked to identify, prioritize, and develop respective climate change programs, projects and activities in our Annual Investment Plans. This is essential in building our resilience to climate change," Jumilla said.

Housing Secretary Eduardo del Rosario congratulated South Cotabato for "pushing for an "ecologically balanced" PDPFP that promotes industrial development without causing harm to the environment," an online press release appeared in DHSUD official Facebook Page.

The effects of climate change, particularly scarce water resources and flooding, are already presenting challenges for South Cotabato's industrial development.

Evelyn Fantilanan, Planning Officer III, said South Cotabato will be a caring, resilient, ecologically-balanced, highly responsive, functionally integrated and equitably growing agro-industrial and tourism hub by 2028.

She said the development priorities of the province is anchored to the Sustainable Integrated Rural-Urban Development (SIRUD) which brings together and allows for a more view of urban and rural development.

Fantilanan pointed out that the province identifies the strategic priorities that is Agriculture, Tourism, and Industrial Development and shall be realized with the adoption of the decentralized concentration which leads to the preferred spatial strategy characterized by the development of Growth Clusters, Tourism Beltways, and the Hierarchy of Urban-Rural Settlements.

"There's a need for LGUs to act now because it is cheaper to spend on disaster preparedness and mitigation than on disaster response and rehabilitation," Fantilanan, who is also an environmental planner, added.

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South Cotabato is the first Mindanao LGU to receive conferment for DRR-climate change plan - South Cotabato Government

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Koronadal City-The nine-year Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation enhanced Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan of South Cotabato was approved in a virtual conferment, the first local government unit to be approved by the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development. On Tuesday, Governor Reynaldo Tamayo, Jr.

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PH scales up climate action initiatives in 2021 (Researched by Isaiah Micaello D. Mansilla)

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URL: https://mb.com.ph/2022/01/23/ph-scales-up-climate-action-initiatives-in-2021/

TITLE: PH scales up climate action initiatives in 2021

AUTHOR: Manila Bulletin

DATE PUBLISHED: January 23, 2022

KEY INFO: Talks about how drastic the efforts are toward acting to climate change, from merely just theorizing to actually implementing projects.

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The government signaled a paradigm shift last year in the way the Philippines is tackling the worsening climate crisis sweeping the globe, President Duterte's official representative to the Climate Change Commission (CCC) said.

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Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the government's intensified drive versus climate change has shifted from merely theorizing and talking, to implementing practical and doable projects on the ground to adapt to, and mitigate, its destructive effects.

"What is global must now be addressed at the local level. What was theoretical now demands practical applications on the ground," said Dominguez, who is also the CCC chairperson-designate.

The destruction wrought by typhoon "Odette" in several parts of the Visayas and Mindanao before the close of 2021 underscored the urgency of adopting the strategy against erratic weather patterns touched off by rising world temperatures, he said.

Dominguez also cited the need to continuously improve on the Philippines' whole-of-nation approach of making climate risk information more available, understandable, and actionable in a timely manner to communities.

He underscored the importance of capacitating local governments in understanding risks and how these should be addressed by implementing effective adaptation and mitigation measures.

Shortly after Dominguez was assigned to the CCC, the Philippines transmitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in April a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

The NDC commits the Philippines to "a projected GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions reduction and avoidance of 75 percent, of which 2.71 percent is unconditional and 72.29 percent is conditional.

However, Dominguez admitted that the Philippine government cannot achieve GHG emissions reduction target alone.

International support, especially in finance, is needed as the Philippines only accounts for 0.3 percent of the global GHG emissions yet, it suffers tremendously from the intensified typhoons, the finance chief said.

Dominguez had prodded stakeholders during the consultative meetings on the NDC to aim high in reducing the Philippines' carbon footprint as he wants the country to be a world leader in making a difference in the battle against the climate crisis.

Localized climate adaptation and mitigation programs are vital to help "build the resilience of our communities, reverse the degradation, and protect our vital food sources," Dominguez said.

He subsequently stressed the necessary approach to the climate crisis at the 26th Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) held in Glasgow, Scotland from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12, 2021.

Dominguez headed the Philippine delegation to COP26, the first time that a finance secretary was sent to represent the President at the global climate change conference.

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International action on climate change - Climate Change Committee (Researched by Isaiah Micaello D. Mansilla)

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URL: https://www.theccc.org.uk/international-action-on-climate-change/

TITLE: International action on climate change

AUTHOR: The Climate Change Committee

DATE PUBLISHED: 2021

KEY INFO: Adaptation actions are needed to reduce climate impacts on the most vulnerable and emissions reductions are essential to meet the long-term temperature goal. The UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) has advised the UK Government on reducing its greenhouse gas
emissions and adapting to climate change for over a decade, as the independent expert adviser created under the 2008 UK Climate Change Act.

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International action on climate change - Climate Change Committee

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Climate change is a global problem which needs a global response. The 2015 Paris Agreement frames that response by setting a long-term global temperature goal and requiring bottom-up Nationally-Determined contributions from each country that reflect their responsibilities and capabilities. Together,…

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[ANALYSIS] What must the Philippines do about climate change? (Researched by Isaiah Micaello D. Mansilla)

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4) NEWS FEATURE ARTICLE (equivalent to Magazine Article)

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URL: https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/analysis-what-must-philippines-do-about-climate-change/

TITLE: What must the Philippines do about climate change?

AUTHOR: The Rappler

DATE PUBLISHED: MAY 12, 2021

KEY INFO: Talked about how The Philippines is one of 191 countries that have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, and approval of, or accession to, the Paris Agreement.
The Paris Agreement sets an ambitious temperature limit as the global pact’s centerpiece.

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The Philippines is one of 191 countries that have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, and approval of, or accession to, the Paris Agreement, which came into force on November 4, 2016. The Paris Agreement represents a monumental breakthrough and paradigm shift in approach, from a mitigation-centric view to one that also emphasizes adaptation and support for universal participation i.e., from both developed and developing countries.

The Paris Agreement sets an ambitious temperature limit as the global pact's centerpiece. The goal to limit the global average temperature increase "to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels" and to pursue "efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels" is a shared global ambition, but implemented to reflect equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in light of different national circumstances. To reach this limit with better chance of success, country parties - the Philippines included - to the Paris Agreement are expected to pursue mitigation and adaptation actions with support, particularly for developing countries.

Commitments under the Paris Agreement

The Paris Agreement frames each country's commitments to achieve the international pact's objectives through an instrument called nationally determined contributions (NDC). It calls for country parties to account for their NDCs with transparency, accuracy, completeness, comparability and consistency, environmental integrity, and avoidance of double counting. As the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and International Energy Agency Climate Change Expert Group 2018 Paper highlights, accounting of mitigation targets in the NDCs could assist countries in understanding their own and others' collective progress and achievement vis-à-vis the Paris Agreement's long-term goals.

Many developing country parties, such as Indonesia, Cambodia, India, and the Philippines, have communicated NDCs/INDCs that are partially or wholly conditional on international support, such as access to a pledged $100 billion a year in climate finance, technology transfers, and capacity building.

While others have included unconditional measures or those undertaken using domestic or nationally mobilized resources in their NDCs, the conditional part can stymie the success of the Paris Agreement. A 2020 published research by W.P. Pauw et al. points out that the existing $100-billion target pledged by developed countries is insufficient to cover the cost of implementing all conditional NDCs. Also, it reveals that the "feasibility [of implementing the NDCs] is challenged because conditions applied...are often not well defined." Therefore, the prospects for more ambitious NDCs over time is nebulous.

Having this in mind, international climate change scholar Harald Winkler explains that NDCs are essentially starting points with a legal expectation for progression over time to reflect a country's highest possible ambition. This progression is captured through a mandatory, comprehensive, and collective implementation assessment of the Paris Agreement called the "global stocktake" that has a five-year cycle.

The first global stocktake will be undertaken in 2023. In effect, country parties are expected to reflect a progression of both mitigation and adaptation commitments, including support to developing countries, in their NDCs. This is the broad context and normative expectation that serves as a key consideration in crafting an NDC that is considered Paris Agreement-compliant.

Evolution of the Philippine commitment

Prior to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) 21 st Conference of the Parties (COP) and joining the Paris Agreement, the Philippines has communicated an intended NDC (INDC) in October 2015. This became essentially the Philippines' first NDC, as it did not communicate an NDC to replace the INDC when the country submitted its instrument of ratification on March 23, 2017.

The INDC articulates a mitigation target and adaptation measures needing international support for implementation. For mitigation, it seeks a 70% reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 relative to its Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario of 2000-2030 from energy, transport, forestry, industry, and waste, albeit conditioned on the provision of the means of implementation that the country will receive in the form of technical, capacity, and financial assistance. Also, the INDC utilizes a baseline target that is subject to recalculation based on available data. This means the INDC mitigation contribution is dynamic (as opposed to static) and fully conditional.

The University of Melbourne's Climate Energy College observes that the 70% below BAU target cannot be quantified, considering that no BAU level has been provided. On the other hand, the Climate Action Tracker has rated the fully conditional Philippine INDC as 2 degrees Celsius-compatible and falls within the "fair share" range. However, the current policies that are in place do not meet the target enunciated in the INDC, including the Paris Agreement's long-term goal of below 2 to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Therefore, there is an opportunity for the Philippines to address the apparent inadequacy and lack of clarity of the INDC upon its review and update.

On April 15, 2021, the Philippines has communicated an updated NDC. The latest NDC retains both mitigation and adaptation components and articulates a dynamic baseline target similar to the INDC. However, there are substantial changes introduced compared to the INDC. In terms of the Philippine mitigation contribution, the NDC "commits to a projected GHG emissions reduction and avoidance of 75%, of which 2.71% is unconditionaland 72.29% is conditional, representing the country's ambition for GHG mitigation for the period 2020 to 2030 for the sectors of agriculture, wastes, industry, transport, and energy."This commitment is referenced against a projected BAU cumulative economy-wide emission of 3,340.3 MtCO2e for the same period. Per the NDC, the Philippines endeavors to peak its emissions by 2030.

Analysis of Philippine NDC

At a glance, the NDC commits a higher mitigation contribution compared to the INDC. Also, it commits to an unconditional GHG reduction as differentiated from the wholly conditional INDC. This is a positive note. Surprisingly, however, the NDC drops the forest sector to meet the country's mitigation commitment. It goes against the grain that one of the actions needed to control the increase in GHG emissions is the conservation and enhancement of GHG sinks and reservoirs, including the important role of forests, as both a carbon sink and a source of GHG emissions. In its Special Report on Climate Change and Land, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified forestry and other land use as a significant net source of GHG emissions.

Also, there are many land and forest-related climate change mitigation options that have co-benefits for climate change adaptation. Accordingly, the Paris Agreement explicitly recognizes the vital role of the forests for achieving its goals by reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD-plus). Without the forest sector, however, the Philippine mitigation contribution is weakened by its inexplicable absence in the NDC.

Another glaring omission in the NDC to communicate clearly a baseline target is the planned and implemented policies and actions in the energy sector, as the Philippines' biggest contributor - about 52% - to GHG emissions. This information is critical in determining the baseline to identify the policies that have or are likely to have significant effect on GHG emissions, including their status, duration, impacts, and how these impacts are estimated. Also, the information should include any policies that have been excluded from the baseline scenario along with appropriate justification. The same set of information will be needed for the agriculture, waste, industry, and transport sectors.

To exemplify, Republic Act (RA) No. 9513 or the Renewable Energy Act of 2008 (REA) and RA No. 11285 or the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (EECA) and their accompanying National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) and National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Plan (NEECP) representing the supply and demand-side energy sector policies are omitted in the NDC. Under the Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) 2018-2040, a Clean Energy Scenario (CES) is envisioned where the total GHG emission falls by 26% by 2040, which is driven mainly by the increased share of renewable energy with 37.3% contribution to the power generation mix and a corresponding 54% share to the capacity mix. Energy efficiency and conservation targets and measures also have the potential to reduce energy intensity by 3% across economic sectors. In addition, they are projected to avoid the equivalent of 10% of GHG emissions from current policy projections assuming the full implementation of the targets and measures together with a robust NREP. Without the REA, EECA, NREP, and NCEEP, the mitigation contribution under the NDC is less ambitious.

Fortunately, there is still a window to examine and revisit the existing NDC prior to the global stocktake in 2023 to fill in the gaps, make it as clear and progressive as possible, and attract the international support being sought for implementation. If the NDC is to increase the likelihood of attracting international support, it should quantify and set out clearly with details the baseline targets, policies, methodologies, cost estimates, and investment plans in place, among others, for implementation. Definitely, the Philippines can do more along these lines to concretize the level of ambition articulated in the NDC and align its commitment and contribution with the Paris Agreement. - Rappler.com
Tony La Viña is the Executive Director of Manila Observatory. He also teaches law and is former dean of the Ateneo School of Government. Dr. Manny Solis is a Senior Research Fellow on climate change of the Manila Observatory and teaches climate change law in San Beda Graduate School of Law. He is currently based in Adelaide, Australia.

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'Fortunately, there is still a window to examine and revisit the existing NDC prior to the global stocktake in 2023 to fill in the gaps, make it as clear and progressive as possible, and attract the international support being sought for implementation'

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One Mindanao: Environment Concern (Researched by Isaiah Micaello D. Mansilla)

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3nL_-escnI

TITLE: One Mindanao: Environment Concern

AUTHOR: GMA Regional TV (One Mindanao)

DATE PUBLISHED: Jul 23, 2021

KEY INFO: Talks about amidst the Covid-19, we are still battling against climate change and environmental issues
especially when the Philippines is prone to calamities and environmental disasters.

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Filipinos, how are you adapting to climate change? You ask, we answer ( Researched by Asechariya Lanilyn R. Rathnayake)

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URL:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/eastasiapacific/filipinos-how-are-you-adapting-to-climate-change-you-ask-we-answer?page=5

TITLE: Filipinos, how are you adapting to climate change? You ask, we answer

AUTHOR: Lucille L. Sering

DATE PUBLISHED: June 18, 2013

KEY INFO: It talks about how climate change has impacted the people in the Philippines' and how they are adapting to it.

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Filipinos, how are you adapting to climate change? You ask, we answer

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Climate change is definitely upon us. You don't need to have a scientific mind to realize this, as recent natural calamities have shown in the Philippines, which also swept through some parts of Southeast Asia causing hundreds of casualties and losses to the economy: Typhoons Ondoy (International name: Ketsana) and ...

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Mindanao CRP, Climate risk in the Philippines (Researched by Asechariya Lanilyn R. Rathnayake)

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URL: Mindanao_CRP.pdf (cgiar.org)

TITLE: Philippines Climate Risk Profile

Author:   James Giles, Paula Beatrice Macandog, Chase Sova, Larry Digal, Carol Balgos, Melissa Loquias, Marvin Louie Orbeta, Ivi JaquelynT. Astronomo, Leo Kris Palao, Jane Girly Balanza, Jack Hildebrand, and Godefroy Grosjean

DATE PUBLISHED: June 2019

KEY INFO: This article discusses the climate risk in the Philippines and how it affects people's daily activities, particularly agriculture.

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Environmental Problems in the Philippines (Researched by Jayson  G. Andales)

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URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dru4tp-AmkE

TITLE: Environmental problems in the Philippines

DATE PUBLISHED: Oct 27, 2019

AUTHOR: Paul Plaza

KEY INFO: Environmental Problems in the Philippines particularly climate change, Acid Precipitation, deforestation, and pollution such as air and water pollution.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN THE PHILIPPINES

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Home, Climate change in the Philippines, and the DENR's Climate Change Service (Researched by Asechariya Lanilyn R. Rathnayake)

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URL: https://www.gov.ph/web/green-climate-fund/climate-laws-and-policies.html

TITLE: Home

AUTHOR: Climate Change Service

DATE PUBLISHED: 2019

KEY INFO: This article discusses climate change in the Philippines, and the DENR's Climate Change Service responds to the need for a unit within the department that will focus on and address these needs.

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Climate Change in the Philippine Context

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The Garbage Book: Solid Waste Management in Metro Manila (Researched by Jayson  G. Andales)

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URL: https://think-asia.org/handle/11540/249?show=full

TITLE: The Garbage Book: Solid Waste Management in Metro Manila

AUTHOR:  Asian Development Bank

DATE PUBLISHED: First printed in March 2004

KEY INFO: The Garbage Book presents the solid waste crisis in Metro Manila. It is aimed at raising awareness of issues in the sector and outlines potential solutions to address the problem. which is the waste disposal crisis and pollution.

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The Garbage Book: Solid Waste Management in Metro Manila

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The Garbage Book presents the solid waste crisis in Metro Manila. It is aimed at raising awareness of issues in the sector, and outlines potential solutions to address the problem. This book won the Bronze Anvil Award, the overall public relations tools award given by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines during its 40th Anvil Awards in 2005.

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Relocation is not the best and only solution. Pro-people and pro planet policies now!   (Researched by Jayson  G. Andales)

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URL:https://www.facebook.com/YACAPhilippines/photos/a.110066017029164/656269869075440/

TITLE: Relocation is not the best and only solution. Pro-people and pro planet policies now!

AUTHOR: Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines

DATE PUBLISHED: December 28, 2021

KEY INFO: The administration can implement people-focused policies and actively mitigate the impacts of possible typhoons and other disasters in the future.  As the climate crisis affects our country, we must always make sure that the policies implemented are pro-people and pro-planet. Climate justice now!

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c012p077: The impact of climate change in the Philippines (Researched by Asechariya Lanilyn R. Rathnayake)

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URL: c012p077 (int-res.com)

TITLE:  Climate change impacts and responses in the Philippines: water resources

AUTHOR:  Aida M. Jose, Nathaniel A. Cruz

DATE PUBLISHED: August 27

KEY INFO: This discusses the impact of climate change in the Philippines, how it has affected them, and how they have responded.

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Climate change is a threat multiplier for the forcibly displaced in Mindanao - UNHCR Philippines (Researched by Asechariya Lanilyn R. Rathnayake)

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URL: https://www.unhcr.org/ph/24073-jul2021-enews-mindanao.html

TITLE: Climate change is a threat multiplier for the forcibly displaced in Mindanao

AUTHOR: UNHCR

DATE PUBLISHED: August 4, 2021

KEY INFO:  This discusses how climate change affects the people of Mindanao and how to help them recover from the events caused by climate change.

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In a remote area in the middle of the Liguasan wetlands is community that is prone to climate hazards. Despite this, the community has become a safe refuge for those who have been forced to flee due to armed conflict from neighboring barangays. In this community resides Racma, a wife of a fisherman, along with her husband and five children, who lives in a house standing on stilts. Barangay Butiren in Kabuntalan, Maguindanao, remains to be an area with little to no electricity, and is challenged by flash floods which come unpredictably especially during the monsoon season.

Racma shares the challenges they face with the limited access to electricity and the fear of the rising of water levels that threaten their stay in their fragile home. As a mother, she shares that she is unable to sleep soundly at night, especially when the rain pours heavily, and she fears that flood will enter their house and drive them to immediately seek higher and safer grounds. Your support enables UNHCR to respond with life-saving assistance and protect and empower families like Racma's. Disaster preparedness, access to emergency life-saving assistance, and opportunities to rebuild sustainable livelihoods can protect the most vulnerable families during climate emergencies.

With your help, UNHCR and its partners distributed solar lamps to the community to provide a sustainable solution to the lack of electricity, and to provide much-needed light and protection. Racma's husband was also among the fishermen who received sustainable fishing equipment such as boats and bamboo fishtraps, to assist in their livelihood and greener fishing practices. Limited resources and worsening environmental conditions not only threaten their safety and security, but also their ability to earn a living. Your support ensures that they are able to continue providing for their families.

Together, we can anticipate risk and work with local communities to increase their resilience to adapt. We can help strengthen preparedness and response, support environmental solutions, and empower displaced families and their host communities to mitigate the impact of climate change.

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Climate change is a threat multiplier for the forcibly displaced in Mindanao - UNHCR Philippines

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In a remote area in the middle of the Liguasan wetlands is community that is prone to climate hazards. Despite this, the community has become a safe refuge for those who have been forced to flee due to armed conflict from neighboring barangays.

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2: The Many Faces of Climate Action: Discussion of the myriad of ways in which we can embrace Climate Action.  (Researched by Jayson  G. Andales)

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URL:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wdu1MK1sw7ywcIWaROCVi?si=c2281e6297194bbe

TITLE: Many faces of climate action
AUTHOR: This is climate action podcast

DATE PUBLISHED: Jan 11, 2021

KEY INFO: The various ways in which we can embrace Climate Action are discussed. It's a cross-industry, cross-social opportunity to work in a way that benefits our climate. Such as conservation of energy and green plants.

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Listen to this episode from This Is Climate Action on Spotify. Discussion of the myriad of ways in which we can embrace Climate Action. It's a multi-industry, pan-social opportunity to work in a way that better serves our climate.

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CLIMATE CHANGE - The Musical (Researched by Matt Daniel T. de los Santos)

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URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-syP88Ghmmk

TITLE: CLIMATE CHANGE - The Musical

AUTHOR: Pixel Playhouse

DATE PUBLISHED: January 20, 2017

KEY MESSAGE: Climate change is real, has long-term and devastating consequences. Everything in the biosphere, not just humanity, is affected. We can all contribute to a more positive change.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY💚 The importance of making efforts to preserve and protect the Earth's natural resources (Researched by Matt Daniel T. de los Santos)

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URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIb3NxW6Oe8

TITLE: ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY💚

AUTHOR: Loren Bilbao

DATE PUBLISHED: October 7, 2020

KEY INFO: The importance of making efforts to preserve and protect the Earth's natural resources is demonstrated in this short video. It also serves as a reminder of our world's grandeur and wonders. We get to see the consequences of our harmful lifestyles, as well as solutions to these issues.

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Changing the health of the planet starts with us!!! (Researched by Matt Daniel T. de los Santos)

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URL:
https://twitter.com/climatememes/status/609065037655851008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E609065037655851008%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bustle.com%2Farticles%2F105138-11-hilarious-climate-change-memes-to-quiet-the-naysayers-who-keep-denying-its-real

TITLE: Changing the health of the planet starts with us!!!

AUTHOR: Climate Change Memes

DATE PUBLISHED: June 12, 2015

KEY INFO: This meme is quite relatable and real-life. It calls for us not just to discuss our problems but to face them with accountability. Less talk and more action.

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The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg (Researched by Matt Daniel T. de los Santos)

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URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QxFM9y0tY

TITLE: The Disarming Case to Act Right Now on Climate Change

AUTHOR: Greta Thunberg

DATE PUBLISHED: February 13, 2019

KEY INFO: One of the renowned youth climate change advocates, Greta Thunberg, entails why she ought to organize a strike outside the Swedish government to raise awareness of global warming, which has drawn worldwide interest. Facts, eye-opening observations, and feasible suggestions are all presented by her in a clear and concise manner. She calls for the world to get a hold of the situation and not just empty words, but with concrete actions.

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The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg

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SDG 13: CLIMATE ACTION, the devastating effects of climate change (Researched by Jayson  G. Andales)

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URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPGH-i29myA

TITLE: SDG 13: CLIMATE ACTION

AUTHOR: MAPFRE

DATE PUBLISHED: Aug 9, 2019

KEY INFO: The devastating effects of climate change. And the solution to it such as using renewable energy and many more.

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Illustrating the consequences, causes, and solutions to the predicament (Researched by Matt Daniel T. de los Santos)

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URL:
https://bpes.bp.com/collection/climate-change

TITLE: Climate Change Concepts

AUTHOR: BP educational service

DATE PUBLISHED: April 2018

KEY INFO: The poster speaks for itself, illustrating the consequences, causes, and solutions to the predicament. It's neat and well-organized, making it intuitive to read. The visuals and photographs add more context which results in being a more appealing campaign material.