MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this new report with regret that more and more people are suffering from the ever increasing impact of climate change in many countries all over the globe, including the Philippines. This only shows that our capacity to respond to these climate-induce natural calamities is grossly insufficient and it seems our climate adaptation is not working well enough. More actions from government now and the foreseeable future is definitely needed and all this requires political will to pursue the needed climate actions. Please read MAKAKALIKASAN's Green Agenda on Climate Actions for what we think should be done: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/climate--public-health-emergency-actions.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.climateactions To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article A new report reveals 12.6 million people have been internally displaced around the world in the last six months mainly due to climate and weather-related disasters, according to data available through the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) report, Responding to Disasters and Displacement in a Changing Climate, comes hot on the heels of a record-breaking 26 climate-related disaster response operations launched across Asia and the Pacific in 2020. Read more
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MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this innovation and investment on the part of the government that will help in improving our climate actions in both adaptation and mitigation measures. We call on the wide use and adaption; especially of the local government units and local organization of this new technology. MAKAKALIKASAN is for immediate and sustained climate actions in the country as well as the improvement f our R&D (research and development) to make this happen. To read our MAKAKALIKASAN's Green Agenda on climate actions, please read here: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/climate--public-health-emergency-actions.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.climatecations To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article: A new program in the Philippines shows how data tools and mapping can help improve disaster responses and climate adaptation. For countries in Southeast Asia that are highly vulnerable to climate impacts, data sharing is one way to build more equitable responses to climate change and disasters. A new push by the Philippines to use data to improve natural disaster responses may offer lessons for countries across Southeast Asia that face increasing impacts from climate change. The Philippines sees some of the most intense and frequent natural disasters of any country in the world, from tropical cyclones and floods to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. In 2020, the Philippines was hit by at least six typhoons, destroying over 425,000 houses. Two powerful typhoons—Goni and Vamco—hit the country just over a week apart in October and November. Since 2018, the Filipino government has been developing geospatial data and mapping tools that can help make disaster responses more effective and equitable. The tools are part of the government’s National Exposure Database, an initiative that enables data sharing and analysis between state agencies, local authorities and NGOs, according to reporting by Mongabay. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes this plan of the DOF (Department of Finance) to pursue carbon pricing and taxation. We enjoin the DOF to ensure that there is no
"regressivity within the system" as carbon tax are meant to be direct tax to products, services and processes that leads to more carbon emissions. We also welcome the plan of the DOF on carbon procing that will result to incentives for clean energy investments. Carbon tax is part of MAKAKALIKASAN's GREEN AGENDA under Sustainable National Financing. You can read it here: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/sustainable-national-financing.html To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article The Philippines is looking into carbon pricing and taxation to slap a price on harmful emissions in line with the country’s push to fight climate change. “We recognize that there is a need to put in place measures to reduce carbon emissions while balancing the short-term versus long-term economic objectives and environmental goals,” director Nina Asuncion of the Department of Finance (DOF) told a webinar organized by the Tokyo-based think tank Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) last week. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) agrees with this observation that the low unconditional commitments put to question how serious government is in pursuing our commitments to the Paris Climate Agreements. We note further the following concerns of the current draft of the Philippines NDC (Nationally Determined Commitments):
DENR has no clear reduction targets from forest, DA sees no growth potential for organic agriculture & that farmers are only moved by income, DoTR is into this agenda as co-benefit for its mobility agenda & seemed to be failing in its "just transition" in phasing out PUVs, DoE still justifies the continuity of coal. Between these 4 line agencies, they are managing actions that has the most driving force in climate impacts and these red lights are not so promising. CCC (Climate Change Commission) insist that they are for higher target ambitions from 30% to 75% but most government agencies have no proposed improvement on the component on unconditional targets justifying that they do not want to commit beyond what they can deliver based on their capacities. Which basically means, we are not really owning the actions needed to achieve this ambitious target. While labeled as a multi-stakeholder consultation, glaring is the lack of participation of industry and private sector which government has chosen obviously to dialogue with separately. So in a lot of sense, the title of this consultation is misleading and does not give a chance to non government players and other stakeholders to effectively engage industry and we have no way at the point to truly confirm and monitor if their fair share of the NDC target are sufficient and what they are actually doing with its realization. It seems the message here by government is that industry is "untouchable". NBS - Nature Based Solutions (NBS) is a new buzzword dangerously being applied to too broad number of actions that needs to be justified before considering. Some of the unsaid remains the inclusion of nuclear energy as option for renewable energy, "sustainable plantations" are being justified as NBS, and waste-to-energy system that have found itself in the NDC targets of government line agencies. So a lot more really needs to be done. We are at this point not satisfied with government's ambitions and commitments To understand more the CLIMATE ACTION AGENDA of MAKAKALIKASAN, please read this: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/climate--public-health-emergency-actions.html JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.climateactions To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: Makakalikasan Assembly Original article A document draft outlines the Philippines’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – our commitments to combating climate change and environmental degradation. The draft indicates a 75% target decrease in emissions. We welcome this ambitious goal – but in the fine details, it is not enough, with only a 2.71% emission cutback hardcoded into our plans. We need to achieve that 75%. We need to meet the commitments we’ve set down on paper, and we need to start working towards them today. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) notes the main point of the study that shows "...(r)ecent varieties of rice, bred for environmental stresses like heat, showed better yields than both traditional rice varieties and modern varieties of rice that were not specifically bred to withstand warmer temperatures. But the study found that warming adversely affected crop yields even for those varieties best suited to the heat. Overall, the advantage of varieties bred to withstand increased heat was too small to be statistically significant."
This puts to doubt pronouncement of many big seed companies that their climate-resilient varieties are necessarily better that traditional varieties. We therefor cannot discount yet the value of traditional varieties in favor of this new technology touted as our solution to adopt agricultural production to the changing climate. More studies must be done quickly. Given the urgency of the impacts of climate change to our food security, MAKAKALIKASAN reiterates its position on ORGANIC AGRICULTURE within the framework of sustainable agriculture that among others promote traditional varieties that have proven capacity to adopt to rising climates. Notwithstanding, we also support more R&D (research and development) to provide key answers to this dilemma fast. Read here the GREEN AGENDA of the MAKAKALIKASAN on SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE and RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/sustainable-agriculture.html http:// naturepartyph.weebly.com/education-research--development-rd--artistic-expressions-for-sustainability.html JOIN to ACT through our FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.sustainable.agriculture To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article A study of the relationship between temperature and yields of various rice varieties, based on 50 years of weather and rice-yield data from farms in the Philippines, suggests that warming temperatures negatively affect rice yields. Recent varieties of rice, bred for environmental stresses like heat, showed better yields than both traditional rice varieties and modern varieties of rice that were not specifically bred to withstand warmer temperatures. But the study found that warming adversely affected crop yields even for those varieties best suited to the heat. Overall, the advantage of varieties bred to withstand increased heat was too small to be statistically significant. One of the top 10 countries globally in rice production, the Philippines is also a top 10 rice importer, as domestic supply cannot meet demand. Read more MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes efforts by the private sector on climate actions. But we must remember that it is corporate greed that has brought us to this level of over consumption and environmental destruction that is causing climate change. The solution now lies on governance and society. MAKAKALIKASA is committed to GREEN GOVERNANCE in the Philippines in the soonest possible time.
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