The Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human resources in Rural Areas (PhilDHRRA-Mindanao) in partnership with Lutheran World Relief and Foundation for the Philippine Environment has successfully convened the Mindanao Conference on Climate Change and Development in Davao City, on June 10-12, 2009.

The conference was attended by a total of 114 participants, resource persons and guests coming from NGOs, POs, Donor Agencies, Private Sector, Academe and Local Government Units and Line Agencies.

Please click here for the lists of the participants that can be queried by names, funding sponsors and type of participation.

Proceedings of the conference can already be downloaded. Please follow the Conference Proceedings Tab above.

Mindanao Conference on Climate Change and Development . Reflection paper by Nami Iwashita, PhilDHRRA volunteer.

On July 10-12, as a PhilDHRRA volunteer, I attended the “Mindanao Conference on Climate Change and Development” at the Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City. This conference was set to continuously serve as a mechanism for awareness building, knowledge sharing, and progressive discussions among Civil Society Organizations, Local Government Units, Peoples’ Organizations, donor communities and other development players. More....

The Anatomy of Silent Crisis

300 Million People Now Impacted By Climate Change

Huliq News

The Global Humanitarian Forum published its latest report yesterday in Geneva. 'The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis' has been hailed as the first global report into the social cost of climate change.

300 million people are currently affected by climate change, but this is expected to double to 660 by 2030, or 10% of the world's population. The death toll by 2030 would stand at half a million people every year.

99% of these deaths will be in the developing world, the report continues. This represents a serious justice problem, as the developed nations bear a far greater responsibility for CO2 emissions. The poorest 50 countries in the world account for just 1% of global carbon emissions.

The Global Humanitarian Forum, in response to this injustice, call for a substantial increase in aid for adaptation. Global funds for climate change adaptation are currently less than half a billion, a figure which needs to increase a hundredfold for Sub-Saharan Africa or low-lying areas of South Asia to avoid devastation.

The report comes ahead of preparatory talks in Bonn, Germany, before the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December. The Copenhagen summit is widely regarded as a 'last chance' for a global agreement on emissions.

Climate change threatens 100M in SE Asia

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Food, Fishing Industry, Global Warming

MANADO, INDONESIA—Around 100 million people risk losing homes and livelihoods unless drastic steps are taken to protect Southeast Asia’s biologically diverse coral reefs that could be wiped out in coming decades because of climate change, an international environmental group warned on Wednesday.

Clean Energy Ecosystem

Dennis Posadas, Philippine Daily Inquirer

THE Philippines may be one of the world’s top supporters of Earth Hour and Earth Day. We may have a new Renewable Energy Act. But if all this does not translate into greenhouse gas emission reduction, then all that is for naught. After all, don’t you think it is time to move beyond token political statements on clean energy, and actually implement these clean energy projects?

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