{"id":49959,"date":"2015-05-20T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49959"},"modified":"2015-05-20T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T08:50:20","slug":"ph-needs-more-aid-for-climate-change-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/20\/ph-needs-more-aid-for-climate-change-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"PH needs more aid for climate change projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15319\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/climate-change1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15319\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/climate-change1-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/climate-change1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/climate-change1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The country&#8217;s climate change commissioner recently said that the country is eyeing for more funds to support its efforts against the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is encouraging is we now have identified fund sources to finance some of our climate programs without getting from our national budget,\u201d Lucille Sering, commissioner of the Climate Change Commission said.<\/p>\n<p>Sering added that the country is planning to tap more grant-based financing for their climate change projects.<\/p>\n<p>She said that several countries have already expressed support in the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Among the list is Germany, which pledged its openness \u00a0in increasing the financial support \u00a0to the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very appreciative of the grant we received from Germany worth about 15 million euros. That will potentially be increased probably by around 5 million euros depending on the discussions,\u201d Sering told The STAR on the sidelines of the reception for the delegates of the sixth Petersberg Climate Dialogue on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can submit another proposal for the possible addition of 5- to 10- million euros,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 10 projects worth 41 million euros or about 2 million in peso is supported by Germany as part of its International Climate Initiative in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The country&#8217;s climate change commissioner recently said that the country is eyeing for more funds to support its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}