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People in photo: Albay Gov. Joey Salceda, Climate Change Commission Vice Chairperson Heherson Alvarez, UNDP Country Director Renaud Meyer

One of the highlights of the recently concluded Local Government Summit on Climate Change held in Legazpi City, Philippines from Nov. 4-6, 2010, was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Philippines’ Climate Change Commission, the Provincial Government of Albay, and the U.N. System in the Philippines for the establishment of a Climate Change Academy that will serve as a resource for knowledge and expertise on local adaptation practices. The Academy will be housed within a local academic institution, Bicol University, and is expected to be a venue for disseminating information on such practices and their successful application.

Albay Governor Joey Salceda, the UNISDR Senior Global Champion for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction, vowed to aggressively pursue institutional partnerships with national government agencies, leading academic institutions, and international development organizations in pursuit of the objectives of the Climate Change Academy.

Source: The Green Economist