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This document discusses the impacts of climate change in the Philippines. It notes that the Philippines is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts like typhoons and increased temperatures and humidity. The document outlines how the UNFCCC was established to address climate change and that countries are working to mitigate emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change that can no longer be avoided. It provides details on typhoon frequency in the Philippines and how PAGASA categorizes and names typhoons. High humidity levels in the Philippines are also summarized due to surrounding seas and prevailing wind patterns.

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This document discusses the impacts of climate change in the Philippines. It notes that the Philippines is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts like typhoons and increased temperatures and humidity. The document outlines how the UNFCCC was established to address climate change and that countries are working to mitigate emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change that can no longer be avoided. It provides details on typhoon frequency in the Philippines and how PAGASA categorizes and names typhoons. High humidity levels in the Philippines are also summarized due to surrounding seas and prevailing wind patterns.

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Climate change in the philippines

Climate change is one of the most fundamental challenges ever to


confront humanity. Its adverse impacts are already being seen and may intensify
exponentially over time if nothing is done to reduce further emissions of greenhouse gases.
Decisively dealing NOW with climate change is key to ensuring sustainable development,
poverty eradication and safeguarding economic growth. Scientific assessments indicate
that the cost of inaction now will be more costly in the future. Thus, economic development
needs to be shifted to a low-carbon emission path.

In 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted
as the basis for a global response to the problem. The Philippines signed the UNFCCC on 12
June 1992 and ratified the international treaty on 2 August 1994. Presently, the Convention
enjoys near-universal membership, with 194 Country Parties.

Recognizing that the climate system is a shared resource which is greatly affected by
anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, the UNFCCC has set out an overall framework
for intergovernmental efforts to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to
cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. Its ultimate objective is to stabilize
greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human
interference with the climate system.

Countries are actively discussing and negotiating ways to deal with the climate change problem
within the UNFCCC using two central approaches. The first task is to address the root cause by
reducing greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. The means to achieve this are very
contentious, as it will require radical changes in the way many societies are organized,
especially in respect to fossil fuel use, industry operations, land use, and development. Within
the climate change arena, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is called mitigation.

The second task in responding to climate change is to manage its impacts. Future impacts on
the environment and society are now inevitable, owing to the amount of greenhouse gases
already in the atmosphere from past decades of industrial and other human activities, and to
the added amounts from continued emissions over the next few decades until such time as
mitigation policies and actions become effective. We are therefore committed to changes in
the climate. Taking steps to cope with the changed climate conditions both in terms of reducing
adverse impacts and taking advantage of potential benefits is called adaptation.
The Philippines sit astride the typhoon belt, and the country suffers an annual onslaught
of dangerous storms from July through October. These are especially hazardous for northern
and eastern Luzon and the Bicol and Eastern Visayas regions, but Manila gets devastated
periodically as well.[citation needed] Bagyó is the local term to any tropical cyclone in the
Philippine Islands. From the statistics gathered by PAGASA from 1948 to 2004, around an
average of 20 storms and/or typhoons per year enter the PAR (Philippine Area of Responsibility)
- the designated area assigned to PAGASA to monitor during weather disturbances. Those that
made landfall or crossed the Philippines, the average was nine per year. In 1993, a record 19
typhoons made landfall in the country making it the most in one year. The least amount per
year were 4 during the years 1955, 1958, 1992 and 1997.

PAGASA categorises typhoons into four types according to wind speed. Once a tropical cyclone
enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility, regardless of strength, PAGASA gives it a local
name for identification purposes by the media, government, and the general public.

Humidity
Relative humidity is high in the Philippines. A high amount of moisture or vapor in the air makes
hot temperatures feel hotter. This quantity of moisture is due to different factors - the
extraordinary evaporation from the seas that surrounds the country on all sides, to the
different prevailing winds in the different seasons of the year, and finally, to the abundant rains
so common in a tropical country. The first may be considered as general causes of the great
humidity, which is generally observed in all the islands throughout the year. The last two may
influence the different degree of humidity for the different months of the year and for the
different regions of the archipelago.[10]

In the cooler months, even though the rains are more abundant in the eastern part of the
Philippines, owing to the prevailing northeasterly winds, the humidity is lesser than in the
western part where a dry season prevails. From June to October, although the rains are quite
general throughout the Archipelago, the rains are more abundant in the western part of the
Philippines, which is more exposed to the prevailing westerly and southwesterly winds; hence
the humidity of the air is greater there than in the eastern part of the Archipelago.

The least comfortable months are from March to May where temperature and humidity attain
their maximum levels

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