Philippines slashes fund for climate change research

The Philippine House of Representatives, which has the sole power of the purse under the Constitution, chastised the budget department for unilaterally slashing funds for climate change adaptation research from the science department’s proposed budget for 2015. The Department of Science and Technology originally proposed P5 billion ($112 million) for climate change adaptation research, the budget department reduced it to P3.8 billion ($85 million). This was revealed after President Benigno Aquino III made a commitment at the UN Climate Summit in New York to prepare for the worst of the phenomenon.

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