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Developed especially for the private sector audience, this presentation explains the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) Financing Programme, examples of JCM Model Projects, and the JCM Matchmaking Platform. Although presented at a workshop in Indonesia, it provides useful information for private companies in all JCM partner countries.

Although it is more than decade since the passing of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (RA 9003) in the Philippines, creating policy direction towards the establishment of a sustainable solid waste management system, its implementation is still very limited at the local government unit (LGUs) level. This policy brief therefore...

IGES Making Our Cities Climate-Sensitive e-Learning Video Series comprises two videos: 1) Overcoming floods in the Philippines: A story of climate change adaptation and mitigation , 2) Participatory watershed land-use management approach: Interfacing science, policy and participation for effective decision making These two educational videos...

IGES Making Our Cities Climate-Sensitive e-Learning Video Series comprises two videos: 1) Overcoming floods in the Philippines: A story of climate change adaptation and mitigation , 2) Participatory watershed land-use management approach: Interfacing science, policy and participation for effective decision making These two educational videos...

This workshop aimed to identify key requirements of the CCA background assessments at the subnational and/or national levels on the key sectoral and/or cross-sectoral bases (e.g., agriculture, water resources, health, etc.).

We use crowdsourced GIS data from OpenStreetMap to help automate the mapping of land cover in Landsat satellite imagery. The OpenStreetMap data had limited area coverage, but was useful for building a model which could classify land cover in the other areas.

We analyzed the change in vegetated and urban (impervious) area in the Silang-Santa Rosa sub-watershed of the Philippines to assess the implications related to flood risk. Our main findings were: -The impervious area of sub-watershed increased by 54% (from 3,239 ha. to 4,988 ha.). -The vegetated area decreased by 21% (from 8,509 ha. to 6,760 ha)....