CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY AMIDST CLIMATE CHANGE
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CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY AMIDST CLIMATE CHANGE SEN. LOREN LEGARDA United Nations Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
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CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY AMIDST CLIMATE CHANGE
- 1. CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY AMIDST CLIMATE CHANGE SEN. LOREN LEGARDA United Nations Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
- 4. The Philippines has been hailed as the World’s Center of Marine Biodiversity. Our country is one of the 18 mega-biodiversity countries in the world.
- 6. Humans have altered ecosystems more rapidly and extensively in the past 50 years than in any period in history
- 7. For every percentage rise in our economic activity, hectares of wondrous and thriving biodiversity are extracted from our natural environment.
- 9. At a 1.5 to 2.5-degree Celsius rise in temperature in 50-100 years, 30% of species are at risk of extinction
- 10. We need to address a more imminent issue – that of existing local and regional non-climate stresses our natural ecosystems are already facing.
- 11. The 2009 Global Assessment Report of the United Nations found that we are creating trade-offs between ecosystem services.
- 12. We must protect our ecosystems.
- 13. Sustainable Forest Management Act - mandates the development and adoption of a sustainable forest management strategy Integrated Coastal Management Act - seeks to put in place a comprehensive framework that will promote the sustainable development of the coastal and marine environment and resources National Land Use Act - seeks to institutionalize a national land use policy to ensure a rational, holistic, and just allocation, utilization, management and development of the country's land resources
- 14. The Committee on Climate Change is deliberating amendments to the Climate Change Act. A People’s Survival Fund will also be established.
- 15. Let us all work together and forge a network of cooperation to reserve this. Let us renew our friendship with nature and not wait for the time when its wrath reaches its peak.
- 16. THANK YOU