Road maps for continuing crises

We live in a world with continuing, simultaneous, multiple crises.

World peace remains precarious, wars/clashes resulting in local/global adverse impacts for people, communities, and our planet.

The Middle East crisis, the Iran-American unresolved conflicts, the Ukraine-Russia war, among others, have inflicted resource-related challenges affecting especially our world’s marginalized.

Oil price hikes, for example, have affected food, transport, energy supply and costs, deepened and widened poverty and hunger locally, globally.

Hunger and poverty remain unresolved, millions all throughout the world without food and with unmet essential basic human needs.

These social crises should have been resolved centuries back.

Added to the global/local complex socio-economic-political crises, there is the imminent, urgent reality of global warming, caused by abusive human activities and widespread use of fossil fuels like coal/oil/natural gas that result in climate change.

Climate change affects weather/seasons, causes droughts, wildfires, stronger/more frequent storms/typhoons that alter ecosystems, affecting biodiversity, threatening the survival of species and organisms, melting glaciers, causing sea rise levels, flooding, among others.

All these global warming-related climate change are adversely impacting people, communities and our planet.

2030 is the deadline for the whole world to prevent any further temperature rise which nations under the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to keep "well under 2 °C," with 1.5°C as the agreed upon critical threshold.

For 2026, there is growing concern about extreme weather 2026 and how it could reshape seasonal conditions worldwide, how “Super El Niño 2026, often being referred to as the Godzilla El Niño “could push the planet into unfamiliar territory.”

“The El Niño global impact reshapes weather systems by releasing stored ocean heat into the atmosphere, influencing temperatures worldwide. This warming effect, combined with ongoing climate trends, raises the chances of record-breaking heat across multiple regions. The result is a complex mix of weather disruptions that can impact agriculture, water supply, and daily life globally.”

Locally, how are we resolving these simultaneous, multiple interrelated crises?

June will mark Year 1 for our local elected officials.

How have our local officials in Cebu Province and cities responded to the persistent, multiple crises, most especially, how have local elected officials protected their constituents amidst all these crises?

Do they have clear road maps guiding, protecting, especially their constituents and including protecting the planet as well from harm and global warming?

With the Middle East crisis affecting everyone, what road map or contingency plan do local officials have to better prepare people, communities and the environment through the coming days and months?

Last March 19, Cebu Province conducted the Cebu Provincial Waste Management Summit at Marco Polo Plaza Cebu.

Since then, with the month of May about to end, has Cebu Province completed and released any Waste Management Road Map for implementation soon?

Or has the Province delivered “a science-based Flood Resilience Roadmap” mentioned as an objective for that March Waste Summit?

Or will this be one of the highlights of Governor Pam’s Year 1 State of Cebu Province address in June?

On April 22–23, 2026, at Radisson Blu Hotel, Cebu Province hosted a two-day Cebu Climate Action Summit (CCAS) 2026.

Again, with the public we ask, since that summit, has Cebu Province completed and shared a much-needed Cebu Climate Action Road Map?

Given the urgency to hurdle the multiple crises to better protect Cebuanos and our earth, can we expect Governor Pam and her staff to announce these road maps soon?

We also hope that these road maps contain realistic resource/fund provisions, time table, clear organization of tasks, responsibilities, and dedicated staff and personnel or collaborative partners to ensure the road maps’ urgent implementation and evaluation.

We ask the same questions of all other elected local city/municipal officials:

“Have you shared/implemented your concrete road maps to navigate and protect your constituents through the multiple crises affecting their lives daily?”