
The other showcase areas for coping with climate change were: the Bicol region, vulnerable for volcanic eruptions and typhoons, and Agusan del Norte identified as most vulnerable to climate-change induced drought in Mindanao, Paras said. Metro Manila was included in the demonstration project for disease surveillance together with the province of Albay also in the Bicol region.
In the Cordilleras, the UN-Spain-RP funded project was meant to enable communities in contiguous fragile ecosystems to be ready to cope with climate change triggered disasters. Villages in that mountainous region have become the center of landslides that have resulted in hundreds of deaths whenever typhoons or strong monsoon rains hit Luzon….
Rice terraces near Sagada, Mountain province, Philippines, shot by Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
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