Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday, May 23 lauded the signing into law of the PHIVOLCS Modernization Act of 2025 or Republic Act No. 12180 saying the newly-enacted law will help the Philippines strengthen its disaster risk management programs. “By modernizing PHIVOLCS, we are making a bold...
Senator Loren Legarda has called on Filipinos to challenge the status quo in disaster risk reduction as the negative effects of climate change and disasters continue to threaten human existence. Legarda, pointed this out during her keynote address at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) on...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (Facebook) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte said he fully supports the proposal to localize disaster risk management in a bid to achieve a more effective and flexible response to...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged the officials of Ramos town in Tarlac for "lack of responsiveness to the real needs of residents' when 90 percent of the town's farmlands were inundated and 1,126 families were affected by typhoons "Egay" and "Falcon" in July and August 2023. In its 2023...
The government has more than P37.1 million worth of relief goods which have remained undistributed and exposed to loss, wastage or misappropriation, the Commission on Audit (COA) said. In its 2022 audit on the Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM), COA said that storage and timely distribution...
Satellite images of Benguet after the fire in 2020. (Photo from Philippine Space Agency) The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) cited that satellite images, also known as "Earth Observation imagery," play an important role in assessing and identifying damage in the aftermath of natural disasters....
