How social aid could fund green jobs and reforestation

Despite the Philippines spending hundreds of billions of pesos annually on social assistance programs, poverty, environmental degradation, watershed decline, biodiversity loss, flooding and climate vulnerability persist. At the same time, decades of reforestation efforts have produced mixed results because success has frequently been measured by the number of hectares planted rather than the number of

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