Climate change paris agreement philippines


When the Philippines ratified the Paris Agreement, the Government set forth a country-defined timeline to submit the first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) before 2020. Pursuant to the mandates under the Climate Change Act, as amended, and the General Appropriations Act, the Climate Change Commission is leading and coordinating the development and finalization process of the Philippine NDC.

The Instrument of Accession signed by the President was accompanied by a Declaration of State that the “accession to and implementation of the Paris Agreement by the Republic of the Philippines is for the purpose of supporting the country’s national development objectives and priorities,” which include:

  1. Sustainable industrial development;
  2. Eradication of poverty and provision of basic needs;
  3. Securing social and climate justice; and
  4. Energy security.


Target & Beneficiaries

The NDC is intended to be the Philippines’ investment strategy for a low-carbon development, thus its target beneficiaries are the whole nation including the general public, government, CSOs, academe, and the private sector.

Outputs

The CCC is leading the efforts to complete the technical process of the NDC and to craft the NDC text that will be communicated to the UNFCCC. This resulted to the following accomplishments:

  1. Vetted sectoral mitigation options by DA, DENR and DOTr for NDC target consideration;
  2. Facilitated the provision of technical assistance to:
    1. NEDA for the Economy-wide analysis and Emission-Scenario Building Study which yielded long-term GDP and GVA projections used in sectoral models for NDC analysis;
    2. DA for the development of the model for the agriculture sector’s mitigation and adaptation analysis.


    In achieving these outputs, the following activities were conducted from 2016-2020:

    (10) Sectoral stakeholder consultations
    (6) Roundtable discussions on NDC Economic Modelling, and Analysis
    (5) CSO/Public Consultations
    (4) NDC Technical Working Group Meetings
    (21) CCC House-to-House consultations
    (9) CBA Workshops/Consultations
    (5) High-level Meetings on NDC
    (1) Training workshop on climate change mitigation, GHG Inventory and NDC for GHG-NDC team of the Department of Energy (DOE)