Mindanao Conference on Climate Change and Development
Sowing the seeds for a coordinated Mindanao response to climate change
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BUTUAN CITY – Members of the Regional Development Council (RDC) and the Regional Disaster Coordinating Council (RDCC) warned that Mindanao would dry up by 2050 with the current disturbancs in weather patterns.
If not given “deep and serious concern” by the Aquino administration, the country's present food basket will be severely affected in the coming years, they added.
Experts said that with the effects of global warming and climate change in Mindanao, the region is seen as the most threatened area in the country by 2050, thus severely affecting the agricultural and industrial sectors.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 July) – Saying local government units have the “right to say no” to projects that threaten the welfare of the people, environment and indigenous peoples’ rights activists said President Benigno Aquino III should respect the decision of the provincial government of South Cotabato to pass the Environment Code that bans the open pit mining method in the province.
Erwin Quinones, campaigns paralegal of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC-KsK), told MindaNews that the President must respect the right of the local government units to manage and develop the resources within their jurisdiction.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / June 28, 2010) – Hundreds of students marched on Monday in the southern Filipino city of Davao and joined mounting calls from environmentalists and various groups for more environment protection, particularly against mining and logging in the country. The march, participated by some 500 students from different Catholic schools, coincided with the celebration of the Environment Month.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
IN SECURING enough food amid climate change, the country's agriculture sector is urged to focus more on adaptation rather than mitigation measures.
The priority strategy for development will focus on adaptation since this is where most government funds should invest," said Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development (Pcarrd) deputy executive director Danilo Cardenas.
Published on June 5, 2010
DAVAO CITY—A climate change expert has asserted that land reform helps mitigate global warming, saying that giving people “some variety of stable rights over land” encourages them to invest more in the land and enhance its productivity.
James Putzel, head of the Crisis States Research Centre of the London School of Economics, said that part of any system of climate change adaptation like in the Philippines needs to involve the distribution and redistribution of land rights.
Written by: Robin , Alisa
Thursday, 06 May 2010
TWO major events are scheduled in the city this year to promote environmental awareness. The first is Philippine Eagle Week on June 4-13 with the theme “Sa Agila May Pag-asa Laban sa Pagbabago ng Klima” under Presidential Proclamation No. 79.
“We plan to emphasize that Philippine Eagle conservation is a solution to the pressing issue of climate change,” said Tatit Quiblat, communications officer of the foundation.
“By protecting eagle habitats of at least 7,000 hectares each, we are protecting and rehabilitating forests,” Quiblat explained at a press conference yesterday at the Marco Polo Hotel. However, Quiblat was disappointed to say that the Philippine Eagle Week was only celebrated in Davao City.
By April Rose Torion | Saturday| April 24, 2010
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/23 April) — We can say goodbye to El Niño soon.
Ann Fortich, chief meteorological officer of Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)—Malaybalay said the rains are expected as early as May or later in June.
“(El Niño) is expected to end soon, hopefully,” Fortich said, although the monthly record of the rainfall continued to be short of the normal volume.
Monday, April 12, 2010 12:21:31 PM
The Muslim world has now become concerned on global warming and climate change because of the more than one billion Muslims, seventy percent live in the East part of the world and in countries which are very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
To respond to this global problem, the Muslim Seven Year Action Plan for Climate Change (M7YAP) was crafted in Istanbul, Turkey in June 2009 for all Muslim countries. Part of this action plan was to convene the First International Conference on Muslim Action on Climate Change in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia last April 9-10.
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