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With the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) at its spearhead, the agency will lead the effort and present an action plan in November at this year’s UN climate conference (COP 27) in Egypt. Over the past 50 years, a climate or water-related disaster has occurred on average each day – taking the lives 115 people and causing daily losses of USD 202 million, according to a 2021 WMO disaster statistics report. In relation to this, the Philippines has consistently been ranked in the Global Climate Risk Index as among the countries most affected by climate change. With a CRI score of 18.17 from the period 2000 to 2019, the Philippines is 3rd in the world in terms of long-term climate risk among sovereign nations, following Haiti and Myanmar. “The Philippines is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and this year’s Earth Hour is a good reminder that climate change and global warming are real issues that we need to pay more attention to and require urgent action,” said Acting Presidential Spokesperson Martin Andanar. This is a radical strategy change for Apple: a company famous for trying to bring every single piece of its hardware and software pipeline in-house for the sake of control. Read more in our articles including "UN pushes global early warning systems for disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation" and "E-jeeps to ply the routes of EDSA by March 2014".