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00:00 Now, in 2024, the government's budget is more than P500 billion for addressing climate change.
00:08 This is 17% higher than the budget last year.
00:13 But for the annual super-storm that hits the country after climate change, is this enough?
00:20 Here's what you need to know.
00:24 According to the Department of Budget and Management, the average increase of climate-related expenditure is 21.3% from 2015 to 2023.
00:34 The government will use the budget for the climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies,
00:41 in accordance with the National Climate Change Action Plan.
00:44 What are the contents of the National Climate Change Action Plan?
00:50 There are three main strategies that will strengthen the adaptive capacity and resilience of our communities and ecosystems against climate change.
00:59 In particular, there are priority strategies for addressing climate and disaster resilience of communities and institutions.
01:08 Second, addressing the improvement of resilience or resilience of our ecosystems.
01:14 And the focus on using our development aspirations in a way that our emissions are low.
01:20 This is what is called low-carbon development.
01:22 Under the National Climate Change Action Plan, there are seven priority areas for addressing climate change.
01:29 These include food security, water sufficiency, ecological and environmental stability, human security, climate smart industries and services,
01:40 sustainable energy, and knowledge and capacity development.
01:44 By 2028, the target is for the communities to have better adaptive capacity and resilience,
01:52 such as ensuring food availability and access to other areas of climate change, and successful transition to using renewable energy.
02:03 Under the National Climate Change Expenditure, water sufficiency projects have the largest allocation of P294.46 billion.
02:13 These include improvements in sanitation infrastructures.
02:17 But according to the Ibon Foundation, even if the budget for climate change increases,
02:23 more urgent needs such as food security, the destruction of nature, and poverty are not given priority.
02:32 For example, the reduction of the budget for environmental protection,
02:37 which includes waste and waste water management, pollution control, and protection of biodiversity.
02:44 From P23.8 million in 2022, it is now P21.8 million in 2024.
02:52 In flood control projects, the large portion of the budget for water sufficiency has been passed,
02:59 which could be passed so that there is a proper water supply throughout the country.
03:04 The priority in the Climate Change Action Plan is sustainable management of water resources.
03:11 It means that you will manage the water resources so that the ordinary Filipinos have clean water,
03:18 which is accessible and of the right quality.
03:21 We are not saying that flood control is not needed, it is really needed.
03:26 The priority in food security should be higher than the need for ordinary Filipinos.
03:33 In terms of renewable energy, P200 billion was invested in expanding the use of sustainable and renewable energy.
03:42 P155.4 billion from here was invested for railway projects.
03:50 This is an additional $1.5 billion to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars.
03:57 According to the IBON Foundation, instead of railway projects,
04:01 the budget should have been invested in the transition to the use of cleaner energy.
04:06 Energy is a major source of emissions.
04:10 So the government should have invested a larger amount of money to shift towards renewable energy.
04:15 But it is very minor, negligible actually, in the spending for 2024.
04:21 So sustainable clean energy is very important.
04:24 According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources or DENR,
04:29 aside from the previous National Climate Change Action Plan,
04:33 the creation of the National Adaptation Plan and Nationally Determined Contribution Implementation Plan are already in the process.
04:41 These are plans that will be used as a roadmap to meet the climate targets of the Philippines.
04:46 What are the differences between these plans?
04:49 According to the DENR, the adaptation strategies based on climate analytics will be laid out in the National Adaptation Plan.
04:57 The adaptation strategies are included here for various sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, food security,
05:05 water resources, ecosystems and biodiversity, population displacement, and migration.
05:11 Under the Nationally Determined Contribution Implementation Plan,
05:16 various policies will be discussed in the energy, transport, industry, agriculture, and waste sectors that are related to low-carbon development.
05:26 In fact, the priorities to improve the adaptive capacities of what we call vulnerable communities
05:34 and to ensure adequate supply and quality of our resources such as clean air, clean water, and other natural resources,
05:43 and to strengthen our resilience of our critical infrastructure, our energy facilities, communication facilities, and other infrastructures,
05:54 including our health facilities, and to ensure information and governance institutions for our climate and disaster resilience.
06:03 It is certain that the fight against climate change is not easy,
06:06 so the plans are wide and the different branches of the government need to help each other.
06:12 We are just starting to provide the budget to our so-called unconditional targets for our National Determined Contribution.
06:21 Maybe when it comes to the so-called conditional targets of our National Determined Contribution,
06:27 where it depends on the funds, capacity building, technology transfer that we can use from developed countries,
06:35 we are still fixing this.
06:37 So, as far as the budget is concerned, the budget is always not enough to solve the problem,
06:43 for the many things that we need to achieve in our targets by 2030.
06:47 So, it's really not enough.
06:49 So, the question for us is, if this is the only thing we will do to address climate change,
06:54 what should be the maximum benefit?
06:57 And to achieve the maximum benefit, what should be in the plan?
07:00 It's a long process, several years, that should be spent to resolve the issue of climate change.
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