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Catanduanes is an island province located in the Bicol Region of Luzon in the Philippines. It is the 12th-largest island in the Philippines, and lies to the east of Camarines Sur, across Maqueda Channel.

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Political map of Catanduanes

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Population Census of Catanduanes in 2015

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Catanduanes' ranking in Cities and Municipalities
Competitive Index Ranking 2020

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CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES COMPETITIVENESS INDEX

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Rankings are based on the sum of their scores on 4 Pillars: Economic Dynamism, Government Efficiency, Infrastructure, and Resiliency. Provincial rankings are based on population and income weighted average of the Overall scores of cities and municipalities under a province.

Data retrieved from DTI

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Largest amount of revenue collected in Catanduanes is from Virac, the capital of the province.

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Agriculture, fishing, and tourism are the main sources of income and employment on the island. Several handicrafts such as jewelry manufacturing and other small enterprises also contribute to the province's economy.

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The province has a total land area of 149,216 hectares, of which 47,901 hectares were use in farming. The major crops produced in Catanduanes are abaca, coconut, rice, peanut, and lowland vegetables.

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Catanduanes is a rising tourist destination in Bicol that offers its visitors an all-natural encounter with nature. That is why the province is called "The Happy Island".

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Climate change is a global phenomenon where there is a long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place. Since the early 20th century the changes observed in Earth's climate is mainly driven by human activities.

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Activities such as burning of fossil fuels has increased the concentration of athmospheric carbon dioxide. Also the cutting down of forests and farming livestock adds a huge amount of greenhouses gases in the athmosphere.

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With the increasing temperature in the Earth’s surface the possibility of more droughts and increased in the intensity of typhoons will likely happen. As more water vapor is evaporated into the atmosphere it becomes fuel for more powerful storms to develop. The increase of heat in the atmosphere and warmer ocean surface temperatures can lead to increased wind speeds in tropical storms. Lastly, climate change has made the sea level rise which gave tropical cyclones opportunity to create storm surges and be the cause of flooding.

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In 2010, Catanduanes had 109kha of natural forest, extending over 89% of its land area. In 2020, it lost 27.2ha of natural forest, equivalent to 13.3kt of CO₂ of emissions.

Data retrieved from Global Forest Watch

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The effects of climate change is most likely be felt around the world but there are certain number of countries that faces the extreme effects of it. Philippines is one of the highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate changes due to its high exposure to natural hazards.  The Philippines lies in the world’s most cyclone-prone region, averaging 19–20 cyclones each year, of which 7–9 make landfall.

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Bicol Region is located in southernmost tip of Luzon landmass and the eastern seaboard of the country, which is prone to typhoons coming from the Western North Pacific Ocean. That is why Bicol is regularly exposed to a variety of natural hazards including tropical storms, typhoons, droughts, drought spells, flash floods, floods, landslides and volcano eruptions.

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Catanduanes is one of the most disaster prone areas in Bicol. Due to its location, the province is usually the first place in the Philippines to get battered by typhoons that's why Catanduanes' nickname is “Land of the Howling Winds.”

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Last November 2020 the Philippines was hit by the world's most powerful tropical cyclone for the year. Typhoon Rolly brought torrential rains, violent winds, mudslides and storm surges. It made four landfalls in southern Luzon with the Bicol region bearing the brunt of its impact. The Municipality of Bato in the eastern island province of Catanduanes was first hit with maximum winds of 225 km/h.

News retrieved from reliefweb.int

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Super Typhoon Rolly 2020

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The Philippine Red Cross reports that damaged infrastructure reached 80-90 percent in Virac. Communication and power lines were cut off  due to the 90 percent of electric posts were toppled by the typhoon resulting to isolation of 11 towns in the province.

News retrieved from BBC News

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13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

13.A Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

13.B Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

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Catanduanes being one of the most vulnerable province in facing the impact of climate change calls for climate action not only in their province but to the whole world. All of us contribute to what is happening in our world right now but not everyone is experiencing the same extreme impact that brought by climate change.

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Actions such as energy efficiency, responsible consumption, use of solar panels etc. will be very helpful. If everybody will be able to do this activities we can lessen the effect of climate change which is a huge help for the people in Catanduanes because most of the time they've been experiencing this strong disasters in the country that brought by the impact of climate change.

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Solar Panels and Wind Turbines

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Solar panels is helpful to the environment because it turn solar energy from the sun which is a clean source into electricity without releasing greenhouse gases.  Wind turbines uses the wind to produce energy and it is a renewable energy source. These two will lessen the air pollution and carbon emissions by not using electricity generation from fossil fuels.

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Cars and Trucks

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Cars and trucks harms the environment because it releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as these gases build up they trap heat in the atmosphere.

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Last 2018 the mayor of Virac is asking for humanitarian body for assistance since the natural water resources in the area can no longer meet the municipality’s need for safe drinking water.

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Due to the dry spell, the water sources of the Virac Water District had significantly reduced which affected the delivery of its services. Virac, with a population of 73,650 people, is composed of 63 communities and of the total number of communities, 23 are connected to the water district.

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Since the province of Catanduanes experiences a lot of typhoons in a year they always experience water supply shortage and damaged sanitary facilities. Last November 2020 when Typhoon Rolly hits the province the restoration of the water supply took time since their pipes underground has been damaged.

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Safe and clean water after a typhoon is an essential since the water might be contaminated  by chemicals and other contaminants that may cause you a disease. If you don't have clean water it will be hard for you sanitize. Hygiene is also important because a washing of hands can help you prevent germs especially we are in a pandemic. It is a must to have an access to clean water and sanitation especially right after a disaster. According to the United Nations, Floods and other water-related disasters account for 70 percent of all deaths related to natural disasters.

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6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all

6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations

6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally

6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity

6.5 By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate

6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes

6.A By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies

6.B Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management

Data retrieved from United Nations

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Having an access to a clean water and sanitation should be a right of an individual not a privilege because water is an essential for people to survive. Drinking clean water is also a matter of public health because a person who drank water that is contaminated can lead to a disease including bacterial infections.

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The GoSun Flow

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The GoSun Flow is a solar powered water filtration uses solar energy to filter 99.99% of pathogens from water. This will be helpful especially in Catanduanes since after a calamity clean water is a scarce so with the use of this technology you can filter the water even without electricity since it is solar powered.

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The AKVO 36K

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The AKVO 36K is an environmentally-safe, air-to-water generating machine that is designed to produce 100 liters of pure drinking water in a 24 hour cycle. This will also be helpful because if there are water disruptions you can use this generate water.