A NEW report titled 'International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2022' revealed that 85 percent of Filipinos were 'somewhat worried' to 'very worried' about climate change. Eighty-eight percent, meanwhile, believed that climate change was currently happening and 87 percent felt that it represented a 'somewhat a serious threat' to a 'very serious threat' in the next 20 years.

Extreme weather events, a manifestation of climate change and considered a global risk, are clear and present dangers to Filipino lives and livelihoods. The World Economic Forum, in its 2022 Global Risks Report, ranked extreme weather events as the second most severe risk on the global scale over the next 10 years.