The General Appropriations Act (Republic Act No. 12116) for Fiscal Year 2025 contains several provisions on climate change mitigation and adaptation, including on:
- providing support to all Agrarian Reform Communities (ARCs) to strengthen their climate resilience, including the conduct of climate and disaster risk assessments, provision of capacity-building on value-adding activities and non-farm livelihood options, enhancing access to innovative agricultural insurance coverage such as weather index-based insurance, and enhancing their capacity to adopt climate-resilient technologies;
- ensuring that the laws in the protection of the environment, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and disaster risk reduction and management are integrated in the regular subjects in both public and private schools;
- promoting and enhancing protected areas through sustainable management and ecotourism development, mapping and inventory of the biodiversity of the province, and accelerating climate change adaptation and mitigation;
- establishing and maintaining a Climate Change Information Management System and Network, including climate change risks, activities and investments; and
- enhancing Local Government Unit capacity to effectively implement disaster prevention and risk reduction measures through the strengthening of communities and people's capacity to anticipate, cope with, and recover from disasters.
