Philippines SDG Watch 2023: Measuring Progress and Charting the Course for a Sustainable Future
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? During the celebration of its seventieth anniversary on September 2015, the member states of the United Nations decided on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the new global plan of action. This built on the more focused Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and was intended to include all countries and all aspects that the framework of the MDGs fell short in, like environmental sustainability and social inequalities, to name a few. The SDGs were formally declared in the document entitled “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” or simply the 2030 […]
How Bad is Climate Change Affecting the Philippines?
A Nation on the Frontline The Republic of the Philippines stands at the global epicenter of the climate crisis. This is not a future forecast but a present-day reality, confirmed by a convergence of scientific data and lived experience. The 2022 World Risk Index, a global measure of disaster risk, ranked the Philippines as the country with the highest risk among 193 nations, a position that underscores its profound vulnerability.1 This extreme vulnerability is not a matter of chance; it is the result of a perilous intersection of geography, meteorology, and socio-economic structure. The nation’s geography places it in the […]