[OPINION] On losing your home, livelihood, and more due to the climate crisis

'A total of 5.7 million Filipinos were forced out of their homes last year due to disasters, more than any country except for China.' Opinion COP27

As July is National Disaster Resilience Month, it serves as a timely reminder that the climate crisis is arguably the biggest threat to the Philippines’s pursuit of sustainable development. Given its many impacts, decision-makers must identify which issues associated with it should be prioritized and how to best use available resources. Two such issues are internal displacement and loss and damage, problems that are linked with one another.

A total of 5.7 million Filipinos were forced out of their homes last year due to disasters, more than any country except for China. By the end of 2021, the Philippines still has 700,000 internally displaced peoples due to disasters, nearly seven times as many as those displaced due to conflicts and violence. This includes the reported 590,000 displaced due to category 5 typhoon Odette, the second most destructive in the nation’s history.

The issue of loss and damage primarily focuses on climate-related risks and impacts beyond the capacities of adaptation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Financing solutions to avoid or minimize it has become a hotly-debated topic in global negotiations, and should be a main part of the Philippine policy agenda on the climate crisis.

One of the biggest problems with addressing internal displacement is the difficulty in data collection and tracking the status of IDPs. Assessment tools used by government agencies need to be improved for specifically tracking those forced to migrate due to climate change impacts.

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