1.

What are the impacts of climate change in:

a. Daily Life
The fist impact of climate change in our daily life is our health. Medical professionals
have increasingly been sounding the alarm about the risks and consequences of continually
burning fossil fuels. For Example, the dirty fossil fuel emissions that contribute to the
greenhouse effect can lead to respiratory diseases such as asthma in children and adults.
And they can be quite dangerous. According to World Health Organization, air pollution kills
an estimated 7 million people worldwide every year.
Next is our home. As our globe warms, glaciers melt and ocean water expand, leading
seas to rise about 7 to 8 inches on average since 1990. The added volume of water creeping
up coastlines slowly swallows land and homes and fuels more flooding inland.
The greatest impacts of climate change, including threats to human life and health, cost
of impacts such as damage to property and infrastructure, loss of productivity, threats to
our food supply and water quality, mass migration and security threats.
b. Community
Global climate change contributes a great amount of devastation to the world every
day. This is important because the change is affecting human, animals, plants and just about
anything else that is living. As a result of global climate change, regions, ecosystems, and
agriculture will be greatly affected. There are many tings causing global climate change such
as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Through destroying trees and removing
plant life, humans are contributing to global climate change.
c. Province
The Philippines, being an archipelago and a developing country, is highly vulnerable to
the adverse impact of climate change. The latter has been manifested in the country in
terms of extreme weather disturbances including increased number of tropical cyclones,
stronger typhoons, heavy flooding, and long dry spells. These extreme weather events
associated with climate change, and the corresponding disasters these have caused,
resulted to significant loss of human lives and billions of pesos due to destruction of
properties, including damage to agriculture. It is therefore important to be able to recognize
these changing weather patterns to help the country in its adaptation efforts.

d. Our Country

Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting

national economies and affecting lives costing people, communities and countries dearly
today and even more tomorrow. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising,
weather events are becoming more extreme and greenhouse gas emissions are now at their
highest levels in history. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the
most.
2. What are the actions being taken or done locally and nationally in response to the threats of climate
change?
Affordable, scalable solutions are now available to enable countries to leapfrog to
cleaner, more resilient economies. The pace of change is quickening as more people are turning
to renewable energy and a range of other measures that will reduce emissions and increase
adaptation efforts. Climate change, however, is a global challenge that does not respect national
borders. It is an issue that requires solutions that need to be coordinated at the international
level to help developing countries move toward a low- carbon economy.

To strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, countries adopted
the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris, which went into force in November of 2016. In the
agreement, all countries agreed to work to limit global temperature.

3. Write at least 5 challenges which you think would be effective in combating climate change.
a. Save energy. Take a look at the labels on your appliances, and never leave them on standby.
b. Always practice 3R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle).
c. Act against forest loss. Try to participate in community service like planting trees.
d. Reduce emissions. Instead using your car, try to use sustainable transportation such as
bicycling or use public transportation more often.
e. Eat Low-carbon. Reduce your meat consumption and increase your consumption of fruits
and vegetables.
4. Select a place in the campus, take a picture before you do something good and take a picture again
after.