This is a hand out for global policies to answer the impact of Climate Change and Save the Biodiversity. I have only included policies wherein the Philippines are engaged and participating.

1. Global Policies to answer the impact of
Climate Change and Save the Biodiversity
Global Call to Climate Action of United Nation
As a campaign to fight and lessen the impact of Climate Change the United Nations include it to their
seventeen sustainable development goals on number thirteen to fifteen which are: To take urgent action
to combat Climate Change and its impact; Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine
resources for sustainable development; and Protect, restore sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystem,
sustainably manage forest, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation and halt
biodiversity loss.
Some of the International Climate Policies are:
 United Nations Framework Conventions on Climate Change (UNFCC)
 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
 Montreal Protocol
 Kyoto Protocol
 Paris Treaty Agreement

2. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
 Consist of 196 parties
 Parent Treaty of 1997 Kyoto Protocol
 Objective: is to stabilize green house gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that will
prevent dangerous human inference with the climate system.
 Philippines is one of its member but not part of Annex I and Annex II signatory countries.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 Currently consist of 195 members
 The leading international body for the assessment of Climate Change
 Established by United Nations Environmental program (UNEP) and the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) in 1988.
 Objective : is to provide the world with clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in
Climate Change and its potential environment and socioeconomic impacts
 Philippines is one of its member
Montreal Protocol
 Adopted in 1987
 A protocol on substances that depletes the Ozone Layer.
 The Montreal Protocol also makes important contributions to the realization of the UN Sustainable
Development Goals.
 Legally enforces the phase-out of the production and use of ozone depleting substances - chemicals
often used in refrigeration, air-conditioning, foam manufacturing, aerosol production, and fire
extinguishing.
 has funded the incremental costs of compliance in developing countries since 1991, a task
complemented by the Global Environment Facility in countries with economies in transition.
 The Montreal Protocol has, contributed to a significant drop in total global production and
consumption of ozone depleting substances used in agricultural, consumer and industrial sectors
around the world.
 Since 2010, the agenda of the Protocol has focused on the phase-out of hydrochlorofluorocarbon
(HCFCs), an ozone-depleting substance mainly used in cooling and refrigeration applications, and in
the manufacture of foam products.
 Without this treaty, ozone depletion would have increased tenfold by 2050 compared to current
levels, and resulted in millions of additional cases of melanoma, other cancers and eye cataracts.
 To date, the Parties to the Protocol have phased out 98% of ODS globally compared to 1990 levels.
Because most of these substances are potent greenhouse gases, the Montreal Protocol is also
contributing significantly to the protection of the global climate system.
Kyoto Protocol
 It was founded during the convention in Japan
 The Protocol’s first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012
 legally binds developed country Parties to emission reduction targets.
 The second commitment period began on 1 January 2013 and will end in 2020.
 There are now 197 Parties to the Convention and 192 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
Paris Treaty Agreement
 At the Paris climate conference ) in December 2015, all participating countries adopted the
first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal.
 The agreement entered into force on 4 November 2016 following its ratification by 100 of the 197
Parties to the Convention.

3.  The Paris Agreement aims to be a bridge between today s policies and climate-neutrality before the
end of the century With regard to mitigation, the governments agreed:
- a long-term goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C
compared with pre-industrial levels;
- to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C compared with pre-industrial levels, as this
would significantly reduce risks and the impacts of climate change;
- on the need for global emissions to peak as soon as possible, recognising that this will take
longer for developing countries;
- to undertake rapid reductions thereafter, in accordance with the best available science.
Before and during the 2015 Paris conference, countries submitted comprehensive national climate
action plans (so-called intended nationally determined contributions). These are not yet enough to keep
global warming below a 2 °C increase, but the agreement outlines the way to achieve this target. Even if
the limit of a 2 °C increase (of the average global surface temperature) is adhered to, many places on
Earth will experience a higher temperature increase and climate change will have many impacts across
the globe. Adaptation to climate change has thus been recognized within the UNFCCC as an important
policy pillar (with a primary focus on vulnerable developing countries), which is complementary to the
mitigation of climate change.
Reporters:
Arnaldo Legaspi Jr. (Inependent Variable)
Glyden Galapon (Dependent Variable)