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Climate Change and the
Development Agenda
Renato Redentor ConstantinoInstitute for Climate and Sustainable Cities
Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc.Roxas City, Capiz, 29 January 2014
We work on fair climate policy and sustainable energy
We try to tackle problems sideways:By incubating ideas.By innovating
approaches.By implementing
solutions
Great questions define us
How do we respond to the multiple crises confronting us?
How do we respond to a crisis with actual deadlines?
Still at the center: dignity and development.
Jose Enrique Soriano/iCSC
The conceit of our quarrels
December 5, 2013: USS Cowpens, a guided missile cruiser, and an amphibious ship of China, part of the flotilla of Chinas new aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, in near collision in the South China Sea.
Reading the situation
We are drowning in facts, we are intimidated by impacts.
There is the global and the local and someone seems to have dismantled the bridge.
How do we re-establish the conversation?
We do not have the answer. But we have contributions.
Global and national context
Historical responsibility unaddressed in emissions reductions and delivery of finance
Persistent development challenges (NSCB)
Consistent ranking in disaster incidence and climate change vulnerability
Climate change magnifies the impact of wrong development decisions
Food
Jobs
Shelter
Health
Natural resources
Inequality
Jose Enrique Soriano/iCSC
Climate finance is a plumbing job
Peoples Survival Fund law, orRepublic Act 10174
Main authors: Sen. Pres. Juan Ponce Enrile, Sen. Loren Legarda and House Dep. Sp. Erin Taada
Signed into law August 16, 2012. Amends R.A. 9729; operationalizes Climate Change Act of
2009 A rewards fund, NOT a superfund: Php 1 billion. Replenishable; sets a floor but w/o stipulating a ceiling.
Peoples Survival Fund law, orRepublic Act 10174
Governance redesign: assigns DOF leadership role.
PSF Board: minister-level officials from DOF (Chair), CCC (Secretariat), with DBM, NEDA, DILG, PCW + 1 voting rep each from private sector, academe, CSO.
Finding the right balance: access and fiduciary standards
Promotion of bottom-up adaptation, i.e. the more parochial, the better.
Adaptracker.org
AGAM
Recreate discourse
Bring back story-telling, in our different tongues
Talk about SOI
Jose Enrique Soriano/iCSC
Climate-friendly communities
Ejeepneys as icon
Reimagine transport: employment, not boundary, women drivers, and the best mode of walking
Re-charge Leyte: integration of solar with sustainable transport
Imagination is fundamental
Average grid cost
Feed in Tariff premium
INCREMENTAL COST = support needed
SAVINGS
Grid Parity
Feed-in Tariff premium defines incremental cost
The key is planning & quality questions
Appropriate technologies
Sustainable energy is also about democratic control
Against the dictatorship of consumption and accumulation
Jose Enrique Soriano/iCSC
Provincial empowerment agenda
Geography is fundamental to development, governance.
Vital sectors share something in common: neglect due to the feckless dissipation of resources.
Public is forced to choose between centralized, national, clumsy, cookie-cutter programs versus extreme fragmentation from below.
An investment agenda
Dont just run campaigns. Create space! Space for civil
society to flourish. How much of what we do is
mediated by memory? How much of what we think we
can do, or CANT do, is mediated by history?
How much of our sense of solidarity is informed by a living sense of the past?
Think about it
Economic systems do not overhaul themselves and in a democracy, majority support is a prerequisite for any significant societal shift. Politicians do not take risks if they dont think the electorate will support them. And civil society cannot function without a diverse supporter-base.
The Guardian, 13 December 2013
Campaign wisdom from ancient times
Were a small organization of 7 people. Lets search for answers together.
Thank you for your time.
www.eJeepney.org