Local gov’ts tackle climate, COVID crises for int’l climate adaptation summit
Coron, Mandaue, and Guiuan LGUs launch webinar series with Dutch Embassy, ICSC 26 JANUARY 2020, Quezon City — Local government officials shared their efforts to make their communities resilient from both climate change and COVID-19 in today’s launch of a webinar series for the online international Climate Adaptation Summit hosted this year by the Netherlands. The three-part webinar series, “Climate Change and COVID-19: Adapting to Two New Normals”, is organized by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Manila with the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities. Representatives of the local governments of Coron, Palawan; Mandaue City, Cebu; and Guiuan, [...]
Adapting Together
by Isabella Mendoza Photos by AC Dimatatac/ICSC Time and again, we have emphasized that locals can and should take the lead in making their communities more climate resilient. We are proud that ICSC’s partnership with CORDAID has continued to cross political and geographic boundaries in working together towards this common goal. Over the past six months, our work has involved six municipalities across four provinces in the Haiyan Corridor (Eastern Samar, Palawan, Surigao and Cebu) and 4 non-government organizations (ICSC, CORDAID-Philippines, HIPADA and Rain Foundation). A few months ago, we met as an alliance for the first time to [...]