PAGASA role under DDR key to survival EEEE@ tation under one roof.

Means Committee chair pine Atmospherical, Geo- proposal certified ur- Deparhnentof Scienceand
RECENT reports frorr ln Eeparate reports, the - Technology, to the DDR Salceda, said PAGASA
Wortd Meteorological O- andprincipal author of the physical and Ashonomi- gent by President Duterte
three Unt€d Nations among several other gov- is vital to the DDR to
agencies revealing the ganization, the Lrl.l Inter- Department of Disaster cal ServiceAdministration before the Chrisbnas
into the proposed DDR a
-break. emment agenoes, to ha!- "guarantee urrity of com-
country's higher risks ;adonal Strategy for Di- Resilience bill no!&pend-
moniTe disaster risk as- m;nd - and science-based
sasterRiskReductiorL and ing in Congress, said tlre matter of vital necessity The bill proposes the
from climate change ren- sessment reduction and approach to arrd fuIl-time
der more crucial to sul- the Inter-governmental sitlrationrenderc f orecast- for national survival," he transfer of PAGASA and
noted. the Philippine Institute of mitigation, waming and focus on nafural hazards
vival the plan to position Panel on Climate Change ing ard early warning
the Philippine Atmo- have all categorized the more ihan ever as- a r The DDR proposal is Volcanology arrd SeismoL response, along with re_ and, even human-in-
- marked as a vital legisla- ogy, presently urder the liei retrieval and rehabiLi- duced, disasters".
spherical Geophysical Philippines to be ata high-
er sk to weathet evmts
most critical factor to the
disaster resilience pro- tion following a series of P:sc I-
and Ast onomical Sel-
vice Administration spawned by climate gram, and vital to the en- earthquakes that rocked
recendy.
under the proposed De- drange. tire country's survival. -Mindanao
Senate officials said
padment of Disaster Re- Albay Rep. Joey Sarte "This finding renders
silience. Salceda, House Ways and the inclusion of the Philip- Congress could pass the