Govt budgeting must include climate change impact

Fully integrating climate change agenda in government’s planning and budgeting will boost the Philippines’ resilience against the impacts of global warming, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) said in a report.

Secretary Lucille Sering, commissioner and vice chairperson of the CCC, said that policy makers have put in place comprehensive sets of policies, programs and institutions for dealing with climate change, which makes communities less vulnerable to sea level rise, degradation of marine ecosystems and extreme weather events.