This Act aims to integrate disaster risk reduction measures into climate change adaptation plans, development and poverty reduction programs. It recognizes the vulnerability of the Philippine archipelago and its local communities, particularly the poor, women, and children, to potential dangerous consequences of climate change such as rising seas, changing landscapes, increasing frequency and/or severity of droughts, fires, floods and storms, climate-related illnesses and diseases, damage to ecosystems, biodiversity loss that affect the country s environment, culture, and economy.
The Act provides for the establishment of a Climate Change Commission to formulate and implement plans for the country to cushion the impact of natural disasters. The Commission shall be an independent and autonomous body and shall have the same status as that of a national government agency. The Commission shall be the sole policy-making body of the government which shall be tasked to coordinate, monitor and evaluate the programs and action plans of the government relating to climate change.
The Commission shall formulate a Framework Strategy on Climate Change to serve as a basis for a program for climate change planning, research and development, extension, and monitoring of activities to protect vulnerable communities from the adverse effects of climate change. The Framework shall be formulated based on climate change vulnerabilities, specific adaptation needs, and mitigation potential and in accordance with international agreements. The Commission shall also formulate a National Climate Change Action Plan in accordance with the Framework. The local government units shall be the frontline agencies in the formulation planning and implementation of climate change actions plans in their respective areas.
An Act mainstreaming climate change into government policy formulations, establishing the framework strategy and program on climate change, creating for this purpose the Climate Change Commission, and for other purposes.
Date of text 23 Oct 2009 Entry into force notes This Act enters into force 15 days after the completion of its publication in the Official Gazette. Source language Legislation Amendment Amended by on 16 Aug 2012 Implemented by on 26 Apr 2010 on 17 Jun 2016 on 25 Jan 2019 on 15 Mar 2022 on 20 Jan 2010 on 13 Nov 2015 on 23 Jul 2021This website is supported by and contributing to the InforMEA Project which is funded by the European Union
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