Bicol schools to pilot CCA/DRVR program

LEGAZPI CITY, Albay — Climate Change Commission (CCC) Secretary Emmanuel de Guzman is set to arrive here today to lead the series of live-in technical writing workshops Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Reduction ( CCA/ DRVR).

Scheduled on February 19- 21 at the Casablanca Hotel, Local Climate Change Adaptation for Development (LCCAD) Executive Director Manuel Rangasa confirmed that De Guzman will conduct a series of training-workshops that will focus on a nationwide campaign, dubbed as “Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in K to 12 Education and Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Reduction: Learning Materials for Philippine Schools Integrating of Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Sendai Framework for DRR 2030 and Agenda 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals.”

The endeavor is a project which is being supported by the Department of Education (DepEd), local chief executives and legislators from the province of Albay, it was learned.

Rangasa said the project is designed to bring climate issues, impacts and responses into the consciousness of the present and the next generation of Filipinos, by integrating such topics in the academic curriculum of primary and secondary levels, and at least 8,000 selected teachers in some 713 public schools in the province of Albay are expected to attend the climate meet.