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PGMA Signs Climate Change Act of 2009

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed today(October 23, 2009) in Malacañang, into law a bill that institutionalizes response to climate change.

The Climate Change Act of 2009 or Republic Act No. 9729 makes it a government policy to formulate and establish a strategy and program to deal with the effects of typhoons and other weather disturbances, which have increased in frequency and intensity as a result of changes in the climatic pattern.

The new law calls for the establishment of a National Framework Strategy and Program on Climate Change, which will focus on mitigation and adaptation – the two instruments to battle climate change.

Under the law, an autonomous policy-making body, known as Climate Change Commission, is set up to coordinate, monitor, and evaluate action plans to mitigate the effects of climate change and to integrate climate change in the formulation of government policies.

The Climate Change Commission will have 3 commissioners to be appointed by the President and serve for 6 years and an advisory body of department secretaries and the presidents of the League of Provinces, League of Cities, League of Municipalities, and the Liga ng mga Barangay, as well as representatives from the academe, business and NGOs.

With its creation, the President Task Force on Climate Change and the Inter-Agency Committee on Climate Change are abolished and their functions absorbed by the
Commission.

Within 6 months, the Commission will formulate a framework strategy on climate change, a roadmap to combating the advance of climate change.

After a year, it will map out a national climate action plan in synergy with disaster risk reduction.

Immediately after the signing, the President ordered Secretary Heherson Alvarez, presidential adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change, to ask developed nations to reduce global carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, which is scheduled for a renegotiation when it expires in 2012.

Sen. Loren Legarda, the law’s principal author, said the signing is very timely in the aftermath of destructive typhoons Ondoy” and “Pepeng.”

“This pioneering landmark bill is the first in ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) and probably in Asia,” Legarda said.

Apart from Alvarez and Legarda, the signing was witnessed by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Jose Atienza, and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.

Also present were members of the Congress, local government executives, the diplomatic corps, environmental organizations, and the religious and business sectors, including the Philippine Wood Producers Association.

Source: www.denr.gov.ph

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