MANILA - At least eight people have died as super typhoon Man-yi barreled through the Philippines over the weekend as it pushed for scaled-up climate finance flows to vulnerable nations in light of the successive typhoons that hit the country in the past months, authorities said on Monday.
The Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) confirmed to Xinhua in a telephone interview that at least seven died in Ambaguio town after their house was buried in a landslide.
"We are still getting the details about the disaster," said a PDRRMO official who declined to be named because she is not authorized to speak publicly to reporters.
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Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos told reporters that a man also died in Camarines Norte province, southeast of Manila.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the country's top disaster coordinator, has yet to report deaths and damages due to Man-yi.
Man-yi is the sixth powerful typhoon that battered the Philippines in less than a month. It is the 16th tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines this year.
The back-to-back cyclones dumped heavy rainfall, flooding, and landslides, wreaking havoc across Luzon and other parts of the archipelago.
Man-yi is expected to exit the Philippines on Monday afternoon.
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At the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Philippine Finance Undersecretary Maria Luwalhati Dorotan Tiuseco led the Philippine delegation in negotiations for the new collective quantified goal, a post-2025 global finance commitment designed to meet the evolving climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience needs.
"We have been given an unmissable opportunity to shore up the global climate finance war chest, which for many vulnerable countries is a matter of life and death," Tiuseco said during the High-Level Ministerial Dialogue on Climate Finance.
"That is why here at COP29, the Philippines is aggressively pushing for bold actions and sustained, increased financing once and for all for countries that are perpetually on the frontlines of catastrophic typhoons," said Tiuseco.
In the wake of super typhoon Man-yi, the sixth typhoon to strike the Philippines in less than a month, the DOF said it has been pushing for an initial climate finance target of $1.3 trillion annually from developed countries for adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage aligned with the urgent needs of developing nations.
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COP29 is taking place from Nov 11 to Nov 22. This year's conference emphasizes the need for trillions of dollars to help countries achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and safeguard lives and livelihoods from the escalating impacts of climate change.
