RAFI to Hold Forum on Risks and Climate Change Impacts

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 Nino..

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.