Ano ang Climate Migration? | Need to Know
Sa latest global report ng Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre o IDMC, pangatlo ang Pilipinas sa may pinakamaraming naitalang displacement noong 2023.
Mahigit 2.5 million Filipinos ang na-displace o kinailangang lumikas dahil sa natural disasters. Sila iyong mga napilitang umalis sa kanilang tirahan dahil sa mga naranasang kalamidad.
Climate migration, ano ito at sino ang apektado? Here’s what you #NeedToKnow.
Mahigit 2.5 million Filipinos ang na-displace o kinailangang lumikas dahil sa natural disasters. Sila iyong mga napilitang umalis sa kanilang tirahan dahil sa mga naranasang kalamidad.
Climate migration, ano ito at sino ang apektado? Here’s what you #NeedToKnow.
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00:00This is how it usually happens whenever there is a typhoon or other calamities in the Philippines.
00:11In the latest global report of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center or IDMC,
00:17the Philippines is the third country with the most displaced people in 2023.
00:23More than 2.5 million Filipinos were displaced or had to evacuate due to natural disasters.
00:31They are the ones who were forced to leave their homes due to the calamities they experienced.
00:37Climate Migration? What is it? And who is affected?
00:42Here's what you need to know.
00:46The effects of climate change are the more common calamities experienced around the world.
00:52If this continues,
00:54up to 1.2 billion people could be displaced globally by 2050
01:00according to the study of the International Think Tank Institute for Economics and Peace.
01:07Displacement is the forced transfer of residents from their homes to other places.
01:14Climate Migration can be considered as the transfer and evacuation of a community from a place due to the effects of climate change.
01:22For example, those who live near coastal areas are at risk of rising sea level and storm surge.
01:30Or those who are relocated from places prone to flooding.
01:35Some also move due to the effects of climate change on their livelihoods.
01:40For example, there are people, farmers for example, or fisherfolk,
01:45who realized that their farm or their land is not as good as it used to be.
01:53They can become voluntary migrants
01:55wherein they are able to actually find better opportunities elsewhere.
02:00And if their core reason, the main reason or the biggest reason why they left where they used to live
02:09is due to the change in climate, then you can call that climate migration.
02:14In the International Organization for Migration or IOM Philippines report by Eula Bianca Villar,
02:21the most affected by climate change in the country is the livelihood.
02:25For example, in farming, fishing, and livestock racing.
02:29Because of the change in weather patterns, the beginning of farming is affected.
02:35Rainfall is also increasing and the heat of the sun rising from the sunrise is also increasing.
02:43They identified different types of LGUs that are most affected.
02:47And then across the board, farmers, fisherfolk, people living under the poverty line, right?
02:54Those are women, elder people, and the youth. Those are the most at risk.
02:59When a person's livelihood becomes vulnerable or their security is affected in terms of food and community,
03:06migration is one of the solutions or adaptive strategies.
03:11Migration or displacement can be voluntary and involuntary.
03:17For example, voluntary migration is when people move to other places
03:21to look for a better opportunity or a better life.
03:26Usually, voluntary migration is planned.
03:30Security in the sense of, am I able to live my life with dignity, right?
03:37If I leave this place or not.
03:40In the findings of the IOM study, we note that the voluntary migrants,
03:46those who actually leave the places out of their own will,
03:49they have the resources to move.
03:51They have more resources than those who are actually living below the poverty line.
03:57Meanwhile, involuntary migration is when people are forced to leave a place.
04:04For example, those who lost their homes due to natural disasters like typhoons, floods, and earthquakes.
04:13Or those who are in places where the possibility of hazards is high and need to be relocated.
04:20These are the ones who have no other choice.
04:23They have no other choice if they don't leave where they live because of the risk.
04:29So for example, if their area is always flooded or it's not really secure where they live,
04:37then they are forced to just leave where they actually live.
04:41Often, these are the people who actually return.
04:44Migration can have both positive and negative effects.
04:48There are times when the life of those who move to other places becomes better.
04:54Just like having a higher salary and better access to social welfare services.
05:00Meanwhile, there are also those who are having a harder time.
05:03Some of them are moving away from their jobs or losing their livelihoods.
05:09Basically, what they have removed is the risk of them getting the physical effects that comes with climate change.
05:17What I really want to emphasize is the social risk that we do not always see when you look at relocating people from one place to the next.
05:28Adaptive or adaptation strategies are programs, policies, and projects to address the climate change impact in a place or country.
05:38In 2013, after the Super Typhoon Yolanda, more than 4 million people were displaced due to the impact of the typhoon.
05:46Almost 4 million were also displaced after the Super Typhoon Odette in 2021.
05:53According to the United Nations, 60% of the Filipino population lives in coastal areas.
06:00They may be forced to move to other places due to the continuous rise of sea levels around the world.
06:07According to Secretary Robert Borges of the Climate Change Commission,
06:11migration is one of the preventive and adaptive strategies implemented by the government.
06:17We should not let our people live in areas where they are exposed to hazards, whether they be climate hazards or geological hazards.
06:27This is important.
06:28The good thing is that people are becoming more aware of the hazards that they are exposed to.
06:36They know and are following our government when it comes to preventive action.
06:42The Philippines has a national adaptation plan that will serve as a framework to improve the adaptive capacity of different sectors against climate hazards.
06:52There are five cross-sector adaptation strategies under this.
06:56This will be the focus of the adaptive measures that will be implemented in each industry.
07:01This has specific projects and policies to improve our ability as a country, as an LGU, and as a people.
07:13Sustainable development plans of the country will be implemented more and the people will be more protected if the zoning is done properly,
07:22especially in areas where the risk of climate change is high.
07:27It's preventive in approach and the mindset needs to change.
07:33Even in migration, if we don't provide a safe place for our people to live in, they will move around.
07:45They will escape.
07:47Some will return, others will go to other places.
07:51But it will not solve the problem.
07:54What we are doing is preventive adaptation to lessen the losses and damages to our countrymen.
08:03The Philippines is one of the countries with high vulnerability when it comes to the effects of climate change.
08:09That's why mitigation and adaptation measures should be implemented more properly.
08:14Awareness of the effects of climate change should also be increased.
08:18We need to understand that climate change is global, historic, and systemic.
08:24We all need to be prepared.
08:26If we are all prepared, we can see that the police have an impact and we can see that we can change our future.
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