President Marcos was awarded climate and human mobility recognition by an international office for migration for his achievements in handling human mobility and migration as a whole, Environment Secretary Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga said.

In a presser in Malacañan, the Philippine delegation to the Conference of Parties 28 (COP) 28 in Dubai was called to the global climate mobility pavilion which recognizes achievements in terms of migration and how human mobility was handled as a whole.

“So, si President Marcos actually received an award for his role in climate mobility and in human mobility in particular, together po sila ng (along with the) President of Sudan," she said on Thursday, Dec. 14.

"So, we were together with the Minister of Environment of Sudan as well to receive these awards. So, dala-dala po namin iyong award for the President,” he added.

The issue of human mobility and migration was raised during the briefing as the country secured a seat in the Loss and Damage Fund Board, which could give vulnerable countries a voice in global discussion and financing for those affected by climate change.

According to Loyzaga, the Philippines will be pushing for some type of sensitivities to be reflected in the board’s guidelines such as land area loss, total biodiversity and ecosystem destruction, species losses, and extinction threat, in which the Philippines is particularly vulnerable.

“For us po at this point, we are very conscious about migration and how some countries need in fact to manage to retreat away from the sea but also to retreat to other countries wherein they might have to find new places to live,” she said.

The Loss and Damage Fund, which is a new financing scheme, has $792 million so far in current pledges.

The COP however has other funds as well – $6.8 billion for energy; $61.8 billion, financing; and $8.7 billion, lives and livelihood.