Aksyon Klima Pilipinas

In acknowledgment of the growing urgency to address Loss and Damage (L&D) and climate accountability, civil society actors in the Philippines are actively engaging in two workstreams: engagements with the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) at the global level; and the enactment of the Climate Accountability (CLIMA) Bill at the domestic level. While seemingly separate workstreams at first glance, there are interlinkages between the two that, when properly accounted for in policymaking, can boost the country’s strategies in addressing L&D.

This paper aims to examine the interlinkages of the FRLD and the CLIMA Bill in defining the Philippines’s approach to averting, minimizing, and responding to L&D. It intends to specifically highlight the following:

• The salient features and latest developments regarding the FRLD and the CLIMA Bill that are most relevant to the Philippine context on L&D;
• The ways in which the enactment of the CLIMA Bill would benefit its overarching strategies to address L&D and enhance climate resilience; and
• The points of convergence between the priorities under the FRLD and the CLIMA
  Bill that would enhance the country’s L&D strategies, including on how its potential actions on one agenda influences the other and vice-versa.