December 29, 2021 Wednesday
MANILA, 30 December 2021 — As part of technological innovations to address the climate crisis, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) had set up its climate information portal, tagged as the National Integrated Climate Change Database and Information Exchange System (NICCDIES).
Launched in May 2018, NICCDIES, which can be accessed through https://niccdies.
The lack of access to and understanding of climate information has been a major challenge not just in assessing and responding to similar climate hazards, but in enabling effective climate action. Access to climate information has been found to enable households and communities to take action to protect lives, livelihoods, and assets.
The NICCDIES portal is the CCC’s primary enabling platform for consolidating and monitoring data and information on climate change and climate action from public and private sector sources, allowing decision-makers to access, share, and exchange these data for policy-making, development planning, and investment decision-making. It includes database and information systems on the Philippine Greenhouse Gas Inventory Management & Reporting System; Adaptation; National and Local Climate Change Expenditure Tagging (CCET); National Climate Change Action Plan Monitoring and Evaluation; Local Climate Change Action Plans (LCCAP) database for monitoring and tracking; and Gender and Climate Change.
The CCC likewise highlights the importance of addressing inequity in access to climate information, which is often rooted in gender inequality and other sources of marginalization. To provide key information on the distinct impacts of climate change on women and gender-diverse persons, the CCC launched the “NICCDIES Gender and Climate Change” corner earlier this year.
The corner features an overview of Gender and Climate Change, and includes reference resources, international and local plans for mainstreaming gender into climate action, Philippine reports on Gender and Climate Action, and CCC’s efforts to mainstream gender into its mandate—including its Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Point Systems, its GAD Plan and Budgets, its GAD Accomplishment Reports, and its Gender Mainstreaming Evaluation Framework Report. Moving forward, the Commission continues to enhance the content of the corner, and works to develop a sex-disaggregated database on climate change.
Apart from the CCC’s official website, NICCDIES also serves as an enabling platform for consolidating and monitoring data and information on climate action from public and private sector sources, as well as other stakeholders, allowing decision-makers to access, distribute, and exchange these data for use in policymaking, development planning, and investment decision-making.
As part of the regular updating and enhancement of NICCDIES, the CCC plans to include the measurement, reporting, and verification of the Philippine Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), as the tool and system for tracking information necessary for transparency, clarity, and understanding.
NICCDIES is one of the Commission’s efforts to improve access to relevant climate information and intensify climate information, education, and communication strategies of all sectors, as well as to improve the government’s e-governance and online presence amid the COVID-19 pandemic.