How prepared is the Philippines for another major natural disaster?

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The Philippines is the country most at risk from natural disasters.
Climate change has been blamed for extreme weather conditions.
Eight storms have hit the country this year – killing dozens of people.
The government has increased its climate change budget to reduce the economic impact of extreme weather events.
But environmental activists say major corporations that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions should also pay their fair share

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo reports from Marikina City, the Philippines.

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28 Comments

  1. No. We are not.

    Despite the fact that we are extremely aware and informed of the risk, despite the fact that we have been ranking first in the world disaster risk index in consecutive years. We chose to implement overpriced unsustainable hard infrastructure strategies that do not work.

  2. Our country will never be prepared, why? Because our government officials loves to procastinate. They dont have intentions to solve the flooding and fixing the drainage system and water dams facilities. It will not happen.

  3. Government officials negligence prioritizing their wallets than the country and mentally inept people who throws trash everywhere, specially on squatter areas where they just throw their trash everywhere clogging the sewers and we got severe flooding that even a country with less budget for handling natural disasters can do extremely better that the Philippines with billions of budget for handling such calamities

  4. The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index scored the Philippines at 34. When ranked by score, the Philippines ranked 115th among the 180 countries in the 2023 Index. For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the worst score was 11 (ranked 180), and the average score was 43.

  5. Another day, another negative news about the philippines or another country, Al Jeezera never ceased to amaze me with all their negatives news articles about other countries. Like as if Qatar is heaven on earth. Why dont you talk about your terrotists friends? No wonder many countries are banning al jazeera, no credibility

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