RAFI to hold forum
on risks and climate change impacts
By Ramon Aboitiz Foundation
Inc.
October 15, 2014
CEBU CITY – To help
the public in assessing risks and managing the impacts of climate
change amid the increasing unpredictability and variability of weather
patterns, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) - Eduardo Aboitiz
Development Studies Center (EADSC) will hold a forum on “Assessing
Risks and Managing Climate Change Impacts” on October 28, 2014.
The forum will start at 2
p.m. at the Eduardo Aboitiz Plenary Hall of the RAFI-EADSC building,
35 Lopez Jaena Street, Cebu City right across the Casa Gorordo Museum.
The forum is free and open to the public.
Jose Ma Lorenzo Tan, World
Wildlife Fund-Philippines CEO, will present the results of the study
entitled, “Business Risk Assessment and the Management of Climate
Change Impacts” that looks at the vulnerability level of Cebu City in
terms of environmental/climate exposure, socio-economic sensitivity,
and adaptive capacity as one of twelve (12) key Philippine cities most
likely to be adversely affected by climate change.
In the said study, scenario
building exercises were used to encourage “out of the box” thinking
and generate plausible narratives that could be useful for strategic
planning.
This is the sixth part of
the series that RAFI-EADSC organized this year with the theme, “Are we
ready for ‘the new normal’?” The series of forums was in response to
the need for further capability building in terms of climate change
adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management, by looking at
the aftermath and the way we responded to the Bohol earthquake and
super typhoon Yolanda last year.
This forum serves to augment
the already concluded four-part series held last January, February,
April and July, and the fifth special forum on El Niño.
Interested participants may
contact Mr. Rehne Gibb Larena at (032)418-7234 local 109 or email him
rehne.larena@rafi.org.ph on or before October 24.
The Understanding Choices
Forum is one of the programs of EADSC under RAFI’s Leadership &
Citizenship Focus Area, which aims to build a community that is ready
to effect change. The other focus areas of RAFI are Integrated
Development, Microfinance & Entrepreneurship, Culture & Heritage and
Education.