Maynard V. Ramones | SOCTEC2 ER1 | 11333871 | Mr.

Joshua Felicilda
Climate change and poverty are the issues which I think must needs be prioritized. Both
strongly suggest strong evidences affecting the Philippines today. Climate change had been
likely impacting the following: water resources, forestry, agriculture, coastal resources, as well
as human health. Meanwhile poverty may be impacting on the following: domestic investments,
weaknesses in institutions and social infrastructure, institutional uncertainty, and a history and
culture that have impeded growth. Climate change had been a worldly discussion since the
Unite Nations published on the year 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The
IPCC contained scientific assessment reports on climate change from advanced meteorological
agencies and international research laboratories; some mentioned were the Hadley Center for
Climate Prediction and Research of the UK Met Office in the United Kingdom, Meteorological
Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency in Japan, Nation al Center for
Atmospheric Research and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States,
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia, Max Planck
Institute for Meteorology in Germany, and Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis
in Canada. It was hitherto planned to provide solutions on anthropogenic greenhouse effects.
Despite there were programs to channel local climate responses to low-range, mid-range, and
high-range scenarios, divergence of temperature anomalies only began in the 21st century. Past
greenhouse gas emissions cannot be factored out since those already present in the
atmosphere have long lifetimes of about 30 to 40 years. At this rate of mitigations, cooling
effects by sulfate aerosols and warming effects by greenhouse gas concentrations would ever
influence surface temperature. Now that there would be a warmer world, the Philippines would
be susceptible to adverse effects by climate change. The water resources of the Philippines
would experience water stress both in quantity and quality. There would be: large decreases in
rainfall and longer drier periods, insufficient rendering of energy sufficiency program from dams,
flooding events, changes in the forests ecosystem, decreases in crop yields, spikelet sterility in
rice, breakouts of pests and diseases, fish migrations to cooler depths, work migration and
population shifts, insufficiency in food supply, dangers to coastal communities, and outbreaks of
water-based and vector-bourne diseases. Poverty in the Philippines were found out to be
associated with inequality in the study conducted by the Asian Development Bank on the year
2008. This was a recurring challenge for those in poverty in the face of global financial crises:
although there were booms and expansions and episodes of economic development, there
were little impact on poverty reduction. How poverty affects economic growth was transient to a

higher and sustained level of growth. Some of which were lack of access to credit aggravated
by the underdevelopment of the financial markets; lack of education, health care, and nutrition;
regular doses of risks and shocks, causing poverty traps; and conflicts and disorder resulting
from inequality, which hamper investments and destroy social capital. On informational basis of
ADB, they found out that the above mentioned impacts of poverty had more depth. These were
economic growth did not translate into poverty reductions, poverty levels vary greatly by region,
poverty remains a mainly rural phenomenon, poverty levels are strongly linked to educational
attainment, the poor have large families of six or more members, vulnerability to shocks and
risks, governance and institutional constrains remain, local government capacity for implement
poverty programs was weak, deficient targeting in poverty programs, serious gaps for poverty
reduction activities and attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, needed
multidimensional responses to poverty reduction, and further research on chronic poverty. The
growth in Philippine economy was unevenly allocated to the sectorial parts that the poverty
reduction had been slow. Regions IV-A, V, VI, and VII have the most number of poor people,
and the regions ARMM, Caraga, IV-B, V, and IX have persistently high poverty incidence. In
rural areas and agriculture sector, there are a majority of poor which counts farmers and fishers;
also, informal settlers in urban areas. Poverty was a weak determinant to high educational
attainment, since the highest which head people of the household can only achieve an
elementary school education. Poverty was also a weak determinant to population management.
The escalating conflict in Mindanao and current global financial crises highlight the ineffective
poverty strategy most social protection had not incorporated. Poverty reduction is weakly
determined that a revised government strategy was needed. Poverty programs were weak
determinants for basic social services and local level poverty reduction. There were needs on
mobilization and protection of resources and budget for the social sector on poverty reduction
programs, respectively. Although the above mentioned risks and outcomes were of hypothetical
possibilities, the methods and science used were complying to which the now concurs with. The
evidences displayed were to zero in for the suggestion of strategies to the whole sectors of the
Philippines.
The Philippines have both the political will and the technological capability to assess and
address climate change. The Earth had now committed to continued and faster warming. It was
height time that the impacts of climate change would hinder targets set under the Millennium
Development Goals, and sustainable development. All Parties should share the common
responsibility protecting the Earth. Also to shoulder different responsibilities. It was then recent
during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering on the first week of November 2015,

that the 21 economical leaders gathered all over the world signed the Climate Change Risks
Prompt Disaster Framework. The framework will work as a guide policy to coordinate APEC
leaders in response to the disasters endangering lives and economic stability. This must mean
that developed countries should help transition countries in the obligation of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions before they annex. Developing countries surely could not combat
climate change as intense as developed countries. Greenhouse emissions have been a global
problem caused by human activities historically. All countries must share the responsibility
without weighing for whom accounts better than whom. In the Philippines, it was told that there
were climate change adaptation programs and projects. Such named were the Millennium
Development Goals Fund 1656: Strengthening the Philippines Institutional Capacity to Adapt to
Climate Change (funded by the Government of Spain), the Adaption to Climate and
Conservation of Biodiversity Project and the National Framework Strategy on Climate Change
(both funded by the GTZ, Germany), and the Philippine Climate Change Adaptation Project
(funded by the Global Environmental Facility through the World Bank). Meteorological studies
by the Philippines use the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as a
climate models. The UNFCCC use mathematical representations of the climate system,
stimulating the physical and dynamical process. It models the atmosphere and oceans. Visual
representations of mathematical findings were deliberately used on finding out the climate
change in the Philippines. Accounted were: variations of the Earths surface temperature for
spans of year; changes in temperatures, sea level and Northern Hemisphere snow; observed
annual mean temperature anomalies (normal values and mean values); tropical cyclone
occurrence/passage within the Philippine Area of Responsibility; trend analysis of tropical
cyclones with maximum sustained winds; intense tropical cyclone occurrence in the three main
islands; frequency of days with maximum (and minimum) temperature; extreme daily rainfall
intensity (normal values and mean values); projected seasonal temperature; projected rainfall
change; current and projected number of dry days (and rainy days); and responses in local
climate. I learned from SOCTEC2 that the best solution for issues involving social welfare is a
microscale thinking. Thus I would solve climate change by: 1) practice proper segregation of
waste, 2) participate in tree planting programs, 3) be an advocate for the naturalist movement.
The Philippines have the technological capability to assess and address poverty, but not the
political wall to reduce it. It was recommended that there would be a collective and coordinated
response from both the government and the key sector. Recommendations entail both
immediate and short term, and medium and long term. To enhance poverty framework and

strategy is the former, whereas to sustain efforts for economic institutional reforms is the latter.
The Philippines have the policy scientists but do not have policy actors.