CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY AMIDST CLIMATE CHANGE SEN. LOREN LEGARDA United Nations Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

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