A beautiful green‌
Cora Claudio
… & blue environment to all of you!!!
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Cora Claudio
Dear God, Awaken our minds for a productive successful conference. Touch our hearts with the glorious oneness of all Creation, and penetrate our souls with the beauty of this earth. Grant us the wisdom to realize that we can have heaven on earth, if we shall care for each other, for our oceans, & for all your Creation. Amen.
Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Dr. Corazon PB. Claudio, Chair EARTH Institute Asia -Chair/President Mgt. Assoc. of the Phil. - Chair, Climate Change & Sus. Dev Comm. PCSD – Business Sector Representative TOWNS – Information Caravan on Climate Change Team Leader AIJC, PBE, PFST, PCAFI –Director/Trustee Ocean Security Int’l – Coordinator, Scientific & Academic Board
TERMS
HAZARD vs RISK • Hazard: Ocean
• Risk (R): Chance that we shall drown while crossing it in a small boat R = {p/s} x magnitude of adverse consequence
Phil. Exposure Map
Climate Change ‌ caused by natural events (e.g., volcanic eruptions) & human activities
"How will the climate change over the next century under both natural & human influences?" Steven E. Koonin Dir.,Ctr for Urban Science & Progress, NYU;
USEC (science), US Energy Dept.
Challenges: Uncertain climate's response to human & natural influences & uncertain impact such influences Poor understanding of oceans, which hold most of the climate's heat
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Josephine Ll. Turalba
Josephine Ll. Turalba
Cora Claudio
•CIVIL SOCIETY
•BUSINESS
• GOV’T.
Sustainable development: an expanded view
ECONOMIC (Prosperity)
ENV’TAL (Planet) SOCIAL (People)
INDIVIDUAL (Person) Corazon Claudio
Some Initiatives on CCA & DRRM
SCOPE
CC Subjects or Issues Targeted Objectives & Goals Strategies & Processes/Methods: Policies to Operations Results: changes introduced, benefits gained to date Key Barriers Met, Lessons Learned, Replicability/Transferability
Opportunities: What, where, how?
Green Economy: economy that "should contribute to eradicating poverty, as well as sustained economic growth, enhancing social inclusion, improving human welfare & creating new opportunities for employment & decent work for all while maintaining the healthy functioning of the earth’s ecosystems."
Blue economy: “…..stands for a new way of designing business: using the resources available in cascading systems, where the waste of one product becomes the input to create a new cash flow.” Jan Steffen, IUCN
”…transition from a product-based to a system-based economy.”
Dr. Catia Bastioli, CEO, Novamont S.p.a, European Inventor, 2007
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Blue economy: Some basic principles •Substitute something with nothing
•Natural systems cascade nutrients, matter & energy – waste doesn’t exist •Any by-product is the source for a new product.
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But in building a blue economy as a CCA & DRRM strategy, we must give priority attention to the blue ecosystem. Why?
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Josephine Ll. Turalba
And we must consider recent developments * Regional: ASEAN Economic Integration * Global: From MDGs to SDGs