ABSTRACT
The Philippines is an archipelago located in the typhoon belt and is visited each year by around 20 typhoons. In September 2009 Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) resulted in some of the worst flooding in Metro Manila in recorded history. Some 46,000 homes were completely destroyed and 261,000 were partially damaged. 2 Jerry Velasquez reported that, as ‘[t]he Philippines is one of the very hotspots for climate change …, what happened during [typhoons] Ondoy and Pepeng was not the worst. The worst is still to come.’ 3
