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climate change vulnerability assessment of the verde island passage, philippines Tourism sector Policy and implementation mechanisms were identified, all of which could address climate change impacts but will bring in other benefits in pursuit of environmental management, such as the following: • Strictly implement existing laws at both the national and municipal levels. • Develop sustainable financing mechanisms, such as implementing user fees in other areas and covering recreational activities other than scuba diving. • Strengthen existing organizations and management bodies. • Increase technical expertise on survey and monitoring of underwater resources at the local level. Recommendations that directly deal with climate change impacts were also provided by inter-agency workshop participants: • Include CC adaptation strategies in all AIPs. • Convene all major stakeholders of the tourism industry to formulate an adaptation plan in dealing with CC, to include resort owners, boat operators, and tourism-related associations. • Provide incentives for community/PO to get their involvement and commitment. • Develop reader-friendly information materials and multimedia IEC materials on climate change. Foreshore development Many of the management recommendations for foreshore area management deal with institutional changes within the current government set-up as well as completion of baseline and monitoring records. National government agencies are being asked to issue policies that will mandate LGUs to manage their respective foreshore areas. LGUs are recommending that foreshore area management be devolved to them, so that they can appropriately issue a moratorium on Foreshore Lease Agreements (FLA). Should management remain within the DENR, LGUs recommend stricter monitoring, shortening of FLA periods, and revocation of agreements for those that do not comply with the FLA conditions. Following is a list of management recommendations being made for national government agencies. Recommendations specific to addressing climate change include the following: • Implement adaptive building design to address accelerated sea level rise and storm surges. • Allocate budget for addressing climate change impacts. • Institutionalize Task Force on Climate Change at all levels of government. Within the mandate of LGUs, a number of recommendations emerged that may address climate change impacts but can result in other benefits as well: • All LGUs should create and designate MENRO. • Implement mangrove reforestation. • Translate policies, plans, etc. for action by barangay chairpersons. • Strictly enforce the building code. • Strengthen LGU-NGO partnerships. • Include upland stakeholders in CRM planning and activities. Specific to management of foreshore areas are as follows: • Devolve FLA approval to LGUs, so the latter can issue moratorium on FLAs. • DILG to mandate LGUs to manage foreshore areas. • DENR should monitor FLAs. • Revoke agreements between leases and government for non-compliance of terms. • Shorten FLA term for foreshore areas that are titled. • Encourage owners to undertake mangrove reforestation. • Revoke titles of abandoned foreshore areas. • Amend existing policies, resolutions, etc. to specify rules on foreshore areas. In order to address foreshore area management more effectively, participants recommend undertaking research in the following areas: • Complete physical inventory and socio-economic profile of foreshore areas. • More research on coastal erosion. • Complete inventory of environment-related policies. Health and food safety People’s health an be compromised by abrupt changes in atmospheric temperature, accelerated sea level rise and saltwater intrusion into groundwater sources. Immediate negative impacts can occur to livelihood and income, food security, health, education, human settlement and housing. • Have health and safety in the climate change adaptation framework and strategy of the lead mandated agency (DOH, LGU). 76
• Build up from local to national level a public policy to address demographic pressures on socioeconomic and natural resources. • LGUs to function as coordinative mechanism for climate change adaptation concerns: health and food security with coastal and marine-based resources; health and safety with water, settlement expansion, infrastructure. • Plan for the current food and health security systems and infrastructure in anticipation of food scarcity and diseases brought about by climate changes. • Increase human safety, have disaster risk reduction, have flood hazard mapping, disease control. • Have a disease surveillance mechanism. • Put in place plans and programs to provide for safe water especially in times of calamities. • Use surface water instead of groundwater for both domestic and agricultural use. • Regulate ground water extraction. • Protect watersheds. • Strictly enforce building code. • Relocate coastal communities. • Craft policy to declare the 100 meter zone from the highest tide as a no-development zone and off limits to human settlements. • Manage domestic and industrial waste properly to pre-empt its aggravate role in climate change impacts. • Set up measures to manage domestic wastes and agricultural run off have to be put in place to reduce the possibility of toxic algal blooms. As an opportunity in iterative learning, the vulnerability assessment presented in this report certainly has a lot of room for improvement and refinement. Furthermore, there are quite substantial data requirements that are needed before a full assessment can be undertaken. Nevertheless, most if not all of the data requirements are possibly available at government and local offices, or can eventually be generated when data gathering is improved. Quick surveys can be conducted by stakeholders to secure some of the data requirements that are not available easily. Once it has been applied in the Verde Island Passage, the stakeholders should take note of which parts of the framework are useful and which ones can be improved. Only then can it be subjected to replication in other conservation corridors in the country. chapter 2 • human well-being and climate change: conclusions and recommendations 77
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