Baseline Information on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Pangasinan, Philippines

Understanding climate change and its impacts is needed to help decide coping, adaptation and mitigation measures, actions, and policies, and or their appropriate combinations. This baseline study was done to conduct knowledge, attitude and best practices survey on climate change adaptation and mitigation among the different community members in Pangasinan in terms of their ability to describe adverse impacts of climate change and identify appropriate adaptation as well as mitigation measures. The results of the survey showed revealed that there is a moderate level of understanding about climate change, climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate variability, weather and climate. Climate change experienced through extreme weather variability such as more frequent and strong typhoons and flood occurrence demands corresponding adaptation and mitigation strategies. The identified best adaptation practice along agriculture is to practice organic and or sustainable farming. The best practices for mitigation include proper waste management, reforestation or re-greening of forest or denuded areas. Alongside with these is the conduct of networking and information and education campaign on climate change and its impacts. These best practices could be recommended for policy implementation and information and education campaign. These data on best practices could be recommended for implementation as climate change and mitigation strategies.

Keywords – baseline study, climate change mitigation, adaptation strategies