Climate is changing and will continue to change Mindanao-based journalists learn basics of Climate Change reporting

“Climate is changing and will continue to change.”

This is the message of one of the speakers during a seminar attended by journalists from all over Mindanao including government information officers who want to learn the basics of reporting about Climate Change and other weather-related phenomena held in Davao City recently.
Dubbed as Climate Change Seminar-workshop for Mindanao-based journalists, the Climate Change Commission and the Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists organized the said workshop last September 1, at the Royal Mandaya Hotel.

“We are a nation at risk,” said Dr. Rosa Perez, one of the speakers of the said seminar addressing the journalists present.
She added Journalists should know the science behind Climate change saying, “We should focus on understanding, adaptation and preparation.”

Perez said the Philippines has an adaptation deficit. She added the economic loss during natural disaster speaks of the lack of adaptation in the country to Climate Change.

Sec. Lucille Sering of the Climate Change Commission said climate change has consumed the finances of the country.
She added climate change is no longer the problem of the poor but also the rich.

“Climate change is not about typhoon alone,” she said, adding people should be more wary of the long drought that the country will experience when 2020 comes.

She asked the local media to help identify the impact in the community when national agencies announce their warnings regarding weather disturbances like typhoons.

Sering also asked the media to instill a sense of history among the people saying every disaster report should include a reminder of the past so that it would stick to the peoples’ minds.