00:00I'm the British Ambassador to the Philippines.
00:03Your question is about what success we are collectively having here on climate change in the Philippines.
00:09And what I want to say is, first and foremost, the challenge in the Philippines is an adaptation challenge.
00:14So the Philippines, if it doesn't work to adapt to the unavoidable consequences of climate change,
00:22will suffer significant losses in terms of percentage of GDP, loss in livelihood, loss in crops, and across all different sectors.
00:33So the challenge is how we adapt. How do we invest in water, for example, and irrigation?
00:41How do we adjust our crops to make sure that they are going to still grow in a context where the climate is changing?
00:52And this is what our UK-Philippines Climate Change and Environment Dialogue was all about today.
00:58It was about how do we have the data to know what we need to do at the subnational level?
01:05Because everything is contextualized. Different regions will be affected differently.
01:09Some will have flooding in the next 20 years. Some will, however, suffer from drought.
01:16And so we talked about localization. We talked about local-level analytics and data to inform concrete plans.
01:25In the case of Ilocos Norte, sorry, in the case of Negros Occidental, where we've been working together, we look specifically at sugar.
01:35In the case of Iloilo, where we're working together, we're looking specifically at rice.
01:40How do these crops adapt? That is the key question.
01:44And that's what the government of the Philippines and us want to take to scale across the country to make sure we have got plans together to adapt.
01:53And that is the only way to protect livelihoods and to ensure that growth is not encumbered by climate change.
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