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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday blamed years of deforestation for a deadly mudslide that buried a mountainside community amid last week’s torrential rains set off by a storm ...
While noting that amount of rain in the region was not "particularly extreme", the situation was exacerbated by factors such as poverty, deforestation, continued construction in 'no-build zones', the tendency of disaster management policies to concentrate on post-disaster response, lapses in scientific monitoring due to budget cuts and the ...
The Philippine national REDD+ Strategy, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, was drafted and submitted to the United Nations in 2010. [33] An update to the strategy published by the Forest and Management Bureau of the Philippines showed that as of 2017, the county was still in the early phase of preparing to ...
The Philippines is projected to be one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change, [5] which would exacerbate weather extremes. As the Philippines lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire, it is prone to natural disasters, like earthquakes, typhoons, and volcanic eruptions.
Instead, deforestation fell only 6.3% last year, as two of the three rainforest nations faced early stumbles. One year after more than 140 countries pledged to halt all deforestation by 2030 ...
More than 100 global leaders have pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in ...
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As a result of this deforestation, the Philippines had one of the highest forest losses in the Asia-Pacific region at the turn of the century. [12] The large extent of forest loss in the country can be illustrated by the change from the country being a “major exporter of tropical logs in the late 1950s until 60s to now being a major importer ...