Business risk assessment and the management of climate change impacts: eight Philippines cities
This report presents local climate scenarios for 8 Philippine cities based on city-specific weather information over a 20-year period, from 1990 to 2010, and includes scenarios based on climate and environmental exposure, socio-economic sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. It is the result of a project aimed at helping city planners and decision-makers assess climate change impacts, identify opportunities and decide on a sustainability strategy, site-specific interventions and standards of next practice that will allow the city to retain economic viability and respond more competitively in a climate-defined future.
The study zeroes in on eight major Philippine cities: Baguio, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro, Dagupan, Laoag and Zamboanga, and uses scenario building exercises to encourage “out of the box” thinking and generate plausible narratives that could be useful for strategic planning. The scenarios are related to: (i) El Niño Southern Oscillation Events (ENSO); (ii) sea surface temperatures increase; (iii) ocean acidification; (iv) sea level rise; (v) tropical cyclones; and (vi) rainfall, river flow and flooding. This report builds from the 2009 landmark study entitled 'The Coral Triangle and climate change: ecosystems, people and societies at risk' which was assembled by 20 experts.
Explore further
![](/sites/default/files/styles/por/public/35810_largeImage.jpg?itok=5LdslTZ_)