Baguio
City in northern Luzon in the Philippines is most vulnerable to climate change
of the four cities outside the National Capital Region that were studied by the
World Wide Fund for Nature-Philippines.
A Climate Risk Assessment Study made by the
WWF and the Bank of the Philippine Islands Foundation Inc. of the cities of
Baguio, Cebu, Iloilo, and Davao showed that the northern Luzon metropolis is
most vulnerable to extreme weather events.
According to the study, this was due to Baguio
City's density and amount of rainfall that it gets every year. Of the four
cities surveyed, Baguio City, also known as the country's Summer Capital, is
the only that is on the direct path of the typhoons, which usually hit Central
and Northern Luzon.
Davao was seen as the least vulnerable among
the cities with room for sustainable, integrated area development, the WWF
said.
Although Iloilo is rapidly becoming urban and
is flood-prone, it has managed to keep its population growth down to 1.53
percent, addressing the population density issue.
Cebu, dubbed the Queen City of the South,
remains prominent in manufacturing and trade industries and as such has an
opportunity to reinvent itself with investments to "climate-proof"
infrastructure and technology to strengthen its current economic supply chains,
the WWF study said.
Kristine L. Alave in Manila/Philippine Daily
Inquirer | ANN
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