The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has earmarked P12.4 billion for 19 specific programs on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction to be carried out in 2016.
The amount represents about 57 percent of the P21.8 billion budget of the agency, which was included in the P3.002-trillion General Appropriations Act recently approved by the House of Representatives.
“More than half of the agency’s 2016 budget is allotted for programs that aim to further build the resilience of vulnerable communities and natural ecosystems against the devastating impact of climate change,” DENR Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje said.
The Aquino administration’s flagship reforestation program – the National Greening Program (NGP) – gets the lion’s share of the DENR’s climate change expenditures at P 8-billion.
NGP is a massive forest rehabilitation program of the government established by virtue of Executive Order No. 26 issued by President Aquino in February 2011.
It is also a national effort that aims to address food security, poverty reduction, environmental stability, biodiversity conservation, and a mechanism for climate change mitigation strategy to enhance the country’s forest stock to absorb carbon dioxide.
Other climate change programs getting a significant allocation includes protected area development and management program, P1.063 billion; forest protection, P473.6 million; restoration of major river basins (Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project), P451.4 million; air quality program, P443.7 million; unified mapping project, P398 million; national geohazards assessment, P397 million; clean water program, P194 million; Ecological Solid Waste Management Regulations, P588.2 million; implementation of the area based management plan of Manila Bay, P80 million; wildlife protection and conservation, P72.2 million; and hazardous waste management, P41.7 million.
The climate priority allocation also include groundwater vulnerability assessment, P18 million; establishment of monitoring stations in water constrained cities, P15.2 million; comprehensive water resource assessment in major river basins, P13.6 million; coastal resource mapping P10.6 million; mapping of low-lying areas vulnerable to sea level rise due to climate change, P9.8 million; land cover mapping, P9.6 million; and development of groundwater management plan, P6 million. # Source – www.denr.gov.ph
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