Climate change has become a serious challenge for different communities around the world, and its adverse impacts are increasingly being felt particularly by developing countries, where urbanization is rapidly happening. It comes in different forms, such as temperature rise, variability of precipitation, increase and intensity of typhoons, and sea level rise, which may trigger droughts, floods, heat waves and forest and grassland fires. These climate change impacts greatly affect a community's economy and well-being. As a result, it becomes more important for communities to learn how to adapt to these impacts. Super Typhoon Yolanda (International Name: Haiyan) was one of the strongest and deadliest tropical cyclones that made landfall in the Philippines. Its effects were considered the true impacts of climate change, as thousands of livelihoods were disrupted and an equal number of lives were destroyed. The Municipality of Coron, Palawan, situated at the coastal area with tourism as its major source of livelihood, is one of the areas that was greatly affected by the super typhoon. This study aims to determine the mechanisms that should be established by the urban coastal barangays of the municipality in order to build their adaptive capacity, by (1) looking at the effects of Yolanda in these barangays, (2) assessing the perception of the community on climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM)in the municipality, and (3) evaluating the adaptive capacity measures the local government carried out when Yolanda hit these barangays. Results from the survey, key informant interview, focus group discussion, documentary review and ocular inspections show that the five (5) identified urban coastal barangays in the municipality (Poblacion 1, Poblacion 2, Poblacion 3, Poblacion 5, and Tagumpay) have low adaptive capacity to address the impacts of climate change-related disaster risks. T