Global Climate Phenomenon_ANGEbdvdLO.pptx

Educational Purposes

1. Global Climate Phenomenon Arnyl Mendoza

2. Ice Age An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which there are no glaciers on the planet.

3. IPCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. The World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme established the IPCC in 1988.

4. IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Global climate change is not a future problem. Changes to Earth’s climate driven by increased human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are already having widespread effects on the environment: glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking, river and lake ice is breaking up earlier, plant and animal geographic ranges are shifting, and plants and trees are blooming sooner. Effects that scientists had long predicted would result from global climate change are now occurring, such as sea ice loss, accelerated sea level rise, and longer, more intense heat waves.

5. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL FUND 1656  The Philippines are particularly vulnerable to climate change, which is threatening to hamper attainment of the MDGs. This Joint Programme's goal was to improve the country's capacity to plan and implement projects to mitigate the impact of climate change, with a focus on the most disaster-prone eastern seaboard. The programme brought together eight UN agencies, the Interagency Committee on Climate Change, donors and other partners over a period of more than three years to complete the country’s knowledge base and strengthen institutional capacities to manage climate change risks.

6. PHILIPPINE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PROJECT tural hazards in the world and widely recognized that global climate change is exacerbating the natural hazards that threaten the country. The impacts of climate change are expected to be more severe, with sea level rise, more intense rainfall events (thus more floods and landslides), longer dry spells and stronger moonsoon rainfall variability to have important implications for water resources, agriculture, forestry, coastal areas, public health and human settlement. Increasing climatic variability and more frequent extreme weather events will have serious consequences for the entire nation, as demonstrated by the high costs of recent extreme weather events and related disasters. Along with the ongoing initiatives on climate change adaptation (CCA), this project would focus on developing practical examples and methodologies that demonstrate the benefits of mainstreaming CCA to enable targeted communities to adapt to potential impacts of climate variability and change through the projects' objectives.

7. PHILIPPINE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PROJECT Developing and demonstrating approaches that would enable targeted communities to adapt to the potential impacts of climate variability and change. This would be achieved by strengthening existing institutional frameworks for climate change adaptation, and by demonstration of cost-effective adaptation strategies in agriculture and natural resources management. The Philippine Climate Change Adaptation Project ( PhilCCAP ) has the objective of increasing communities' adaptive capacity by improving: farm management capability under conditions of climate risk; access to information on weather forecasting and climate patterns; access to risk management options such as weather index insurance; and the strengthening of ecosystems. PROJECT OBJECTIVES

8. THANK YOU Arnyl Mendoza