Philippine Academy for Climate Change Adaptations and Disaster Risk Reduction
Photo Credit to www.newsinfo.inquirer.net via Google. This post is taken from the website of the House of Representatives of the Philippines (www.congress.gov.ph). A bill establishing the Philippine Academy for Climate Change Adaptations and Disaster Risk Reduction has been filed in the House of Representatives. Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez (2nd District, Cagayan de Oro City) said the objective of climate change body he proposed in House Bill 3987 is to provide students an opportunity to learn from experienced trainers and local communities about both the theory and practice of disasters risk reduction and climate change adaptation. "It will enrich the research activities of the students and increase their practical knowledge of the possibilities and the implementation of the theory at the community level," Rodriguez said. Rodriguez said disaster risk reduction is the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through the systematic efforts to analyze and reduce the causal f...