2012/ISTWG/WKSP/008 National Climate Change Action Planning: Experiences from the Philippines

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1 2012/ISTWG/WKSP/008 National Climate Change Action Planning: Experiences from the Philippines Submitted by: Manila Observatory Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation in the Asia-Pacific: Observations and Modeling Tools for Better Planning Singapore August 2012

2 National Climate Change Action Planning: Experiences from the Philippines C. Kendra Gotangco Castillo 1,2, Jessica Dator-Bercilla 3 Inez Ponce de Leon 1 1 Manila Observatory 2 Department of Environmental Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University 3 Ateneo School of Government National Government Initiatives Complementary to local government initiatives: Building the supporting institutional infrastructure: Legal instruments and frameworks Funding sources Facilitating capacity-building 1

3 NFS National CC Action Plan Climate change considerations as mainstreamed into rather than additional to current sectoral and development plans. 2

4 Climate Change and Related Policies RA 9729: Climate Change Act of 2009 National Framework Strategy on Climate Change National Climate Change Action Plan Philippine Development Plan RA 10121: Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Issuances Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (BLURB) Revision of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan Guidelines National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) development of DRM-CCA manuals and VA tools Challenges: Mitigation Research: More basic research on carbon fluxes and feedbacks Need for observational data (e.g. carbon flux towers) Need to calibrate and validate ecosystem models Practice: Capacity-building: Need for more inventory experts Technology transfer 3

5 Research: Challenges: Adaptation Application of ecosystem-based research paradigm (crucial: collaboration and data-sharing) More comprehensive basic research on historical trends and variability on all fronts (issue of attribution) More scenarios/storylines and ensemble modeling for future projections (crucial: need for boundary conditions, collaborations and data-sharing on a regional to global scale ) Challenges: Adaptation Science -Evidence-based Policy, Practice Nexus Approach: Manner by which planning and budgeting are Building inventories of resources (including data, informed research by and community experts) from realities, various traditional governments and indigenous agencies, knowledge, state colleges and history, universities, culture, and social, other related institutions for stakeholders to use in the political, planning economic process. experiences and challenges, environmental transformation and state of Providing resources, data and in a useful scientific form information. (e.g. resolution). Translating the science: Communication of actionable information support evidence-based policy and (Jessica planningdator-bercilla) 4

6 Context of Communication Challenges: Emphasis on Climate change Adaptation (CCA) Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Mainstreaming We want to produce CCA-DRRM compliant LGUs with enhanced CCA-DRRM mainstreaming capacity -Local Government Academy Executive Director Marivel Sacendoncillo Some Gaps DRM is better understood the challenge is moving away from response models to proactive models. But with CCA What sort of actions or policies qualify as adaptation? How do we evaluate adaptation options? Adaptation is context-specific What roles do national government units (e.g. CCC play)? Development of tools (issue of consistency), capacity-building Some local government units fall back on the typical clean and green, tree-planting and recycling programs. 5

7 Media Confusion Is DRM = CCA? According to [national gov t official], climate change played a role in the Manila Bay storm surgethat caused flooding in some establishments along Roxas Boulevard, including the US Embassy and the Sofitel Plaza. Challenges: Adaptation Communication Challenges: Identifying the message (e.g. from a range of possible futures). Packaging results and communicating uncertainties to stakeholders. Clarifying the differences between DRRM and CCA, and hence, the different types of actions. 6

8 Packaging the Message: c/o Dr. Bruce Hewitson DRM and CCA: Points of Convergence and Difference Climate Change Adaptation: Reduce risk to: Disaster Risk Management Reduce risk to: Gradual changes in Extreme weather events Climate- and Geophysical climatic parameters DRM and CCA as fraternal with increased weather-related events frequency and severity events Direct connection Sea level rise Changes in twins Changes rather than mean precipitation temperature patterns Hazards that are identical twins associated with extreme events Hazards that are associated with changing climate normals -Jessica Dator-Bercilla, ASOG Ecological events Other events (e.g. technological, terrorism) Gotangco 2012, adapted from Gotangco Castillo 2007; thanks also to IRDR FORIN Faculty Dr. Alan Lavell 7

9 Types of Actions (Brooks et al Tracking Adaptation. IIED Working Paper No. 1) Conclusions Policy trends towards mainstreaming of CC action planning (mitigation and adaptation) need to be supported by: Broad-based ecosystem research drawing on multiple lines of evidence Collaboration, networking and data-sharing both horizontally (e.g. among research groups, practitioners, national government agencies) and vertically (top-down initiatives complementing bottom-up) Interdisciplinary actors to ensure translation of evidence into appropriate actions 8