asean environmental challenge – climate change
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ASEAN Environmental Challenge – Climate Change. Glynda Bathan-Baterina Deputy Executive Director The Third ASEAN Chief Justices Roundtable on Environment “ASEAN’s Environmental Challenges and Legal Responses” 15-18 November 2013 Bangkok, Thailand. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ASEAN Environmental Challenge – Climate ChangeGlynda Bathan-BaterinaDeputy Executive Director
The Third ASEAN Chief Justices Roundtable on Environment“ASEAN’s Environmental Challenges and Legal Responses”15-18 November 2013Bangkok, Thailand
●Heat trapping air pollutants, most notably carbon dioxide, are changing the Earth’s climate.
●The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by 40% since the start of the industrial era due to emissions from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.
●Temperatures have risen around the world as a result.
Source: Natural Resources Defense Council, 2013
• Southeast Asia’s 563 million people are concentrated along coastlines leaving it exposed to rising sea levels
• Heavy reliance on agriculture for livelihood makes SEA vulnerable to droughts, floods, tropical cyclones associated with warming
Source: ADB, 2009
Source: ABN, 2013
• Heat waves, droughts, floods and tropical cyclones have been more intense and frequent causing damage to property and human life. Recorded floods/storms have risen dramatically, particularly in the Philippines, rising from just under 20 in 1960-1969 to nearly 120 by 2000-2008
Source: ADB, 2009
Source: ABN, 2013
Source: Rappler, 2013
Source: IBTimes, 2013 Source: IBTimes, 2013
Source: IBTimes, 2013
Photos from IBTimes, Rappler, GMANews
Economic Impacts of Climate Change in SEA
●Rice yield potential to decline by up to 50% on average by Year 2100 compared to 1990
●Forests could be replaced by tropical savanna and shrub with low or no carbon sequestration potential
●Potential economic cost of inaction would be 6.7% per year of the combined GDP of Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam by 2100
Source: ADB, 2009
Decouple economic growth & GHG emissions
Legal issues and questions
●What is the current science and economics behind climate change?
●Is the existing law applied effectively to the problem of climate change?
●How are cases related to climate change justiciable if at all?
●Do the courts have any role in relation to climate change, or will they only be adjudicating at earlier stages?
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