Sanchez: Mountain man

Sanchez: Mountain man

THE numbers 911 have always been significant for me as an environmental and human rights advocate.

First, 911 is an emergency call for assistance in North America, even in the Philippines. For those old enough to remember, 911 marks the birthday of the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.

In recent history, it marks the date when civilian planes were used as planes as suicide planes against the Twin Towers in New York City.

I was in the Mount Kanlaon Natural Park with my colleagues from the Non-Timber Task Force. We would later watch over and over on CNN the terrorist attacks.

Now I'm the board chair of the Non-Timber Forest Product-Exchange Program (NTFP-EP) Philippines. I always advocated sustainable mountain development.

Recently, I got an email from abroad from Dr. Alex Mackey that read:

Dear Mr Benedicto Q. Sánchez,

I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to you because of your work-related to mountains and mountain communities in Southeast Asia.

There are a growing number of adaptation ‘solutions’ for mountainous regions. I am involved in the Adaptation at Altitude (AaA) project, and one of our goals is to make these solutions easier to find, explore, and appraise for everyone working on this topic, and to give visibility and recognition to those developing them.

This work includes the development of a global and open-access database of adaptation “solutions” that will support practitioners, decision-makers, policymakers, researchers, and other interested parties to develop and implement effective climate change adaptation (CCA) interventions in mountains; and increase the visibility and impact of, and acknowledge the innovative work being done in mountain regions and promote this on the international climate agenda.

“Solutions” include (but are not limited to) technical solutions (e.g., Early Warning Systems), soft solutions (e.g., training and capacity building programs), good practice approaches and processes, and combinations of these.

The database will be hosted by the “Climate Change Adaptation in Mountains” theme on weADAPT, which is supporting knowledge sharing and network building on this topic: https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/adaptation-in-mountains.

WeADAPT is a user-driven platform that has been championing climate change adaptation knowledge for 14 years and always does so with full recognition of those who have generously shared their learnings and insights.

The database will be promoted across various international meetings and conferences, including COP26.

We believe you may have valuable "solutions" to share with others and we would like to support you to do so. We are currently welcoming solutions by May 1, 2021.

To build the database, we have launched a survey to collect information on these various solutions.

Solutions can be contributed to the database via the online survey here: https://www.weadapt.org/adaptation-at-altitude-survey. The survey consists of 10 sections and takes 30 minutes to complete. To fill in the survey you will be first asked to join the weADAPT community if you are not already registered (registration takes 30 seconds) or using the Word document attached and sending it to me.

You can also view and offer your feedback on the initial evaluation criteria for solutions published in the database here: https://www.weadapt.org/forum/building-a-global-database-of-cca-solutions-for-mountain-regions.

I thank you in advance for your time and appreciate that you are likely very busy. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance in helping you fill the survey and showcasing your work in the database.

Please also feel free to share details of this survey with your colleagues or networks. On behalf of the AaA team, I wish you all the best and good health!

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