Tondo – ICSC | Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities

Long-term plans needed to protect Metro Manila’s most vulnerable from rising seas

Ira Guerrero2021-09-28T16:22:05+08:0027 Sep 2021|Tags: AC Dimatatac, ACFJ, Asian Center for Journalism, climate change, disaster risk reduction, DRR, Earth Journalism Network, EJN, Inquirer.net, Internews, Jhesset Enano, Malabon, Manila Bay, Metro Manila, Navotas, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sea Level Rise, Tondo, urban poor|

Text by Jhesset Enano, photos by AC Dimatatac | September 27, 2021 | Published by Inquirer.net | READ THE STORY HERE (Last of two parts) Ariel Cortes has lived most of his life surrounded by water. As a young boy in the 1970s, he worked as a fishpond caretaker until he was old enough to [...]

Urban poor struggle to adapt as rising seas threaten to remap Metro Manila

Text by Jhesset Enano, photos by AC Dimatatac | September 26, 2021 | Published by Inquirer.net | READ STORY HERE (First of two parts) Odd-sized wooden stilts strain to keep Jocel Madrano’s house just over a meter above the gray polluted waters of Manila Bay. The shack, a patchwork of dilapidated plywood and partly anchored [...]