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Feb 2016
MA. SUSAN RACHEL JOSE is the chief technical advisor for the Project Climate Twin Phoenix, a project that envisioned to be the first stage of a more comprehensive and long term capacity development program for cities and municipalities to manage risks from climate change and climate-related natural hazards. With technical assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and implementation by the Climate Change Commission (CCC), the project aims to strengthen the stakeholders’ institutional capacity and individual competency on climate/disaster risk management and to......
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Localizing GHG Inventory: Implications to LGUs
SANDEE G. RECABAR is a Senior Research Specialist of the Climate Change Office of the Philippine Climate Change Commission (CCC). She started working for the Commission in 2011 and serves as its lead technical focal person for climate change mitigation issues particularly GHG inventories, mitigation actions and MRV. She spearheaded the capacity building efforts for national government agencies on greenhouse gas inventories in preparation for the implementation of the Executive Order 174: Institutionalizing the...
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System of Rice Intensification: Climate Tolerant Endemic Crop
JESUS LAS MARIAS is an advocate of System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a method of planting and growing rice that reduces costs, increases yields, and avoids the use of agrochemicals. It has been successfully tested in more than 40 countries, and in almost all regions of the Philippines. SRI-Pilipinas is the network that actively promotes SRI trials among Philippine farmers. The network, System of Rice Intensification Philippines, includes farmers, NGO workers, academes and government...
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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION & MITIGATION & DISASTER RISK REDUCATION & MANAGEMENT (CCA – DRRM
The breakout session on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Measures was led by ATTY. ANGELA CONSUELO IBAY, head of Climate Change and Energy Program, WWF and the Program Coordinator of the Klima Climate Change Center. DR. MARY JEAN CALEDA, Associate Dean for Research and Governance Practice, Ateneo School of Government moderated the session. We live in the anthropocene, a period in which human actions play a major role in shaping the biosphere and its...
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Update on Conference of Parties 21 in Paris
Distinguished guests, good afternoon to everyone. Bon jour. It is a great pleasure to be with all of you today for this 1st Philippine Environment Summit. I thank you for this opportunity that is given to me to share with you some insights about the 21st Climate Conference, also called as COP21, which took place in Paris last December. Almost a year ago, in February 2015, we started our preparation for COP 21 here...
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