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The intent of the MC No. 2025-004, is to institutionalize the Enhanced Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) as a mandatory planning tool to strengthen risk-informed, climate-responsive, and resilient development planning of local government units (LGUs). The Circular provides policy direction to ensure that climate change impacts and disaster risks are systematically identified, analyzed, and integrated into local planning and decision-making processes, particularly in land use and development planning,
The Circular establishes standardized guidance, scope, and minimum requirements for the conduct of Enhanced CDRA, emphasizing the use of updated hazard information, climate change projections, and vulnerability and exposure analysis. It promotes a multi-hazard, multi-sectoral, and spatially explicit approach to risk assessment, ensuring consistency, comparability, and technical soundness of CDRA outputs across LGUs, and
Ultimately, Memorandum Circular No. 2025-004 aims to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into local governance, serving as a key reference for the preparation and updating of Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs), zoning ordinances, and related investment and development programs. By anchoring planning decisions on evidence-based risk information, the Circular supports safer human settlements, resilient infrastructure, and sustainable territorial development.
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