Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officials should develop more policies, plans, and programs focused on or integrating climate action, environmental protection, and disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM).
This month in #RealiTalk, Dr. Bernardo Sepeda walked us through the impacts of the climate crisis on educational institutions in the country. He also shared how De La Salle Araneta University has embedded sustainability, climate action, and disaster risk reduction into its curriculum and operations.
In our Manila Bulletin column Eleventh Hour this week, Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Ferth Manaysay shared how mobile-centric platform @MapaKalamidad.ph intends to contribute to climate change adaptation and disaster response actions in the Philippines—a country highly vulnerable to extreme climate events and rising sea levels.
Launched in September 2020, MapaKalamidad.ph aims to harness the power of social media and instant messaging to crowdsource information about extreme weather events and climate-related disasters at the street level.
The platform promotes an ethic of information sharing and civic co-management, by supporting peer-to-peer sharing and providing a way for government agencies and first emergency responders to monitor the needs of communities.
In this article for our Manila Bulletin column Eleventh Hour, we talked about building resilience amid the climate, environmental, and pollution crises. We also underscored the need to integrate disaster risk reduction and management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and environmental management.
In this month’s #Realitalk, we asked Climate Reality Leader Ferth Manaysay to talk about the nexus between climate change and disaster risk, progress and gaps on institutionalizing climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR), and the crucial role of open data and the youth in building resilience.
