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disaster risk reduction in several sectors including land-use planning, budget, infrastructure,
education, health, environment, and housing; and the creation of disaster risk reduction
offices in every province, city, and municipality.
In 2012, the People’s Survival Fund was established to finance the adaptation programs
and projects based on the NFSCC and the NCCAP. It has an annual allocation of at least
one billion Pesos, which may be augmented by donations, endowments, grants and
ontributions.587 However, to date, only six (6) approved climate change projects utilizing
the said fund have been approved. These are: 1) Disaster Risk Reduction & Management
Response as Coping Mechanism to Resiliency in Lanuza, Surigao del Sur; 2) Siargao
Climate Field School for Farmers and Fisherfolk in the Municipality of Del Carmen,
Siargao Islands, Surigao del Norte; 3) Building Resilience through Community-based
Ecological Farming in San Francisco, Camotes Island, Cebu; 4) Promoting Resiliency and
Climate-Informed Gerona in Gerona,Tarlac; 5) Saub Watershed Ecosystem Rehabilitation
and Flood Risk Reduction for Increased Resilience to Climate change and Natural Hazards
in Sarangani; and 6) Establishment and Sustainable Management of River Ecosystem in
Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte.588
Several sectoral laws and policies, including the National Environmentally Sustainable
Transport Strategy for the Philippines (2011), the Energy Efficiency Roadmap
2014-2030 (2013), Institutionalizing the Philippine Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Management and Registry System (2014), the Philippine Green Building Code (2015),
the Philippine Masterplan for Climate Resilient Forestry Development (2016), the
Philippine Energy Plan 2016-2030 (2016) and the Philippine Green Jobs Act (2016) were
then instituted. These were in addition to sectoral legislation already in place to regulate
the utilization of resources, such as the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of
1992, the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, the Electric Power Industry
Reform Act of 2001, the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004, the Biofuels Act of 2006,
the Oil Compensation Act of 2007 and the Renewable Energy Act of 2008, among others.
During the last quarter of 2020, after Super Typhoon Vamco (local: Ulysses) battered
the Philippines and caused massive floods and deaths, the House of Representatives
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An Act Establishing the People’s Survival Fund to Provide Long-Term Finance Streams to Enable
the Government to Effectively Address the Problem of Climate Change, Republic Act No. 10174, §
13.
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Climate Change Commission, Approved Projects, available at https://climate.gov.ph/our-programs/
climate-finance/peoples-survival-fund.
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