5.5 Milestones

• May 1991; Created Inter-Agency Committee on Climate Change (IACC)
• Inter-Agency Committee on Climate Change; serves as the national coordination mechanism and administrative machinery to implement the country's commitments to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• June 1992; Signed United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• August 2, 1994; Ratified United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• April 15,1998; Signed the Kyoto Protocol
• November 20, 2003; Ratified Kyoto Protocol
• June 25, 2004; Designed DENR as the National Authority for CDM by virtue Executive Order No. 320
• August 2005; Issued DENR Adm. Order 2005-17 on the IRR Governing E.O 320
• October 23, 2010; Signed Republic Act No. 9729: Climate Change Act of 2009
• Climate Change Commission; An Act Mainstreaming Climate Change into Government Policy Formulations, Establishing the Framework, Strategy and Program on Climate Change
• Climate Change Commission; sole policy-making body of the

  government tasked to coordinate, monitor and evaluate Climate Change programs and action plans attached to the Office of the President
• 2010-2022; The National Framework Strategy on Climate Change
• 2010-2022; The Philippine Strategy on Climate Change Adaptation