Philippine National Climate Risk Management Framework of 2019

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   Pursuant to Section 4, in relation to Section 9, of the Republic Act No. 9729, the Climate Change Act, as amended, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) is mandated to ensure the mainstreaming of climate change in national, sectoral and local development plans and programs. Corollary to this main mandate, Section 7 of RA 9729, as amended, provides for the Commission the following powers and functions:
 
Towards this end, the Commissioners approved Commission Resolution 2019-001 on 25 January 2019, entitled “A Resolution adopting the National Climate Risk Management Framework (NCRMF) to address intensifying adverse impacts of climate change”. It was deemed necessary for the country to harmonize and integrate various efforts of sectors and stakeholders on climate risk management, and to strengthen the country’s early action system in view of the increasing losses and damages from recurring extreme weather events.

It envisions a climate action planning system that is anchored on a unified and integrated science and risk-based approach through the presence of a strong risk database, information and analytics system accessible at the national and subnational levels. The Framework further recognizes the strategic direction of the rationalized planning system (RPS), advocating for harmonization among planning guidelines to the benefit of our local government units (LGUs).

The Resolution provides for the conduct of multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder activities of national government agencies (NGAs), LGUs, academe and scientific community, private sector, civil society and other relevant stakeholders. The immediate conduct of a stocktake is further directed.

The same has been supported as the National Panel of Technical Experts (NPTE), the scientific advisory of the Commission, issued its position paper, urging the need to generate a nationwide climate risk assessment. The NPTE emphasized the need for datasets on Hazards (H), Exposure (E) and Vulnerability (V) to come together into a single platform for analysis, and the CCC is in the best position to gather and analyze these datasets and produce a baseline climate risk assessment at a city/municipal scale. 
 
The NCRMF is expected to inform various plans (i.e. Philippine Development Plan, National Climate Change Action Plan including its seven thematic priorities, National Adaptation Plan, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and other sectoral plans), strategies, programs and activities in terms of appropriate beneficiaries targeting, as affected by various impacts of climate change.  
Commission Resolution 2019-001 directs the conduct of the following major activities in a phased approach:

National stocktake of existing government actions at both national and local levels, which aims to review all available climate risk information, tools and methodologies to assess the gaps and needs, review the relevant issuances and publications (i.e. IPCC Special Reports, IPCC and Philippine Climate Change Assessment Reports), and arrive at a set of minimum acceptable standards for climate risk data and climate risk assessment methodologies, covering both deterministic and probabilistic approaches, and at the same time, those hazards that have cascading impacts and compounds risk. The review shall include among others the Climate and Disaster Risk Assessments (CDRA) mainstreamed in the planning process at the local level.  

The NCRMF is expected to provide a standardized guidance for climate risk data and assessment considerations implementable in a sector-wide (horizontal) and reaching local-level efforts of local government units (vertical) in their climate action planning, investments programming and implementation processes. 

With a standard guidance implemented at the national and local levels, the academic and scientific community, private businesses and/or industries, civil society and development partners will be able to efficiently provide development interventions to complement and scale-up climate actions towards resilience and low-carbon development.
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