Building back better agenda to help minimize impacts of climate change | Rizal Raoul Reyes

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Being a disaster-prone country, it is said that the “Build Back Better” philosophy is needed in the Philippines for it to be able to at least minimize the impacts of severe typhoons and other natural disturbances caused by climate change.

However, it seems the country has not learned its lesson well as Supertyphoon Odette mercilessly pummeled large parts of Visayas and Mindanao.

Philippine Institute of Environmental Planners fellow Nathaniel von Einsiedel told the BusinesMirror in an e-mail interview that implementing Build Back Better is easier said than done. Another is the inability of certain LGUs to effectively enforce land-use regulations and other development controls that are aimed at preventing settlements on disaster-prone and other danger zones.

He noted that a number of architects have been involved in the formulation and updating of the National Building Code that has integrated higher standards in consideration of more recent disaster risks. If the Build Back Better agenda or roadmap is implementable, Einsiedel pointed out that it has to be formulated by the LGUs’ key stakeholders, such as the business sector, civil society organizations and the academe, among others.Einsiedel cited one reason is that there are LGUs which do not own land to build the centers on.

 

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