Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines

Abstract

Climate change adaptation in the Philippines has evolved from “no regret” solutions to serious mainstreaming into policies and development plans, which specifically address the country’s and the local governments’ vulnerabilities. Several priorities identified in the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) through a gap analysis following an inventory of climate change researches have already been done in the country, and areas that need further studies, as well as new and emerging issues, are highlighted in this chapter. The most number of research conducted in the Philippines under the NCCAP is in the areas of environmental sustainability and food security. The proposed pilot is to take San Vicente, a municipality located in the northwestern side of the Palawan Province, as a single socioecological system. A holistic adaptation approach for building resilience to climate change will be taken, bearing in mind the concepts of multifunctionality, transdisciplinarity, participation, complexity, and sustainability, specifically targeting the sub-components of resilience.