MANILA, Philippines--Keeping politicians out of the Climate Change Commission would ensure that it would effectively meet the country's needs to better respond to environmental conditions and mitigate the effects of climate change on the people, according to Parañaque Representative Roilo Golez.

Golez also urged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to appoint a "pure scientist" as executive director of the commission.

The creation of the body was one of the main features of the Climate Change Act of 2009, which Arroyo signed on Friday.

Golez, its principal author in the House of Representatives, called the measure "the most important environment law of recent times."

The signing came after the country was battered by storm Ondoy and typhoon Pepeng that submerged parts of Metro Manila and several areas in northern and central Luzon. The country's weather bureau attributed the typhoons to climate change.

Arroyo will serve as the Commission's chairperson, and will appoint an executive director who will oversee its implementation.

"(He or she) should be a pure scientist, no political background," Golez said.

Asked to explain this, he said climate change was "heavy on science from analysis of climate change trends to resolving the anthropogenic versus non-anthropogenic, and mitigation versus adaptation debates to overseeing the implementation of the measures decided at the national and global policy level."

"The executive director should be one who thrives in quiet scientific analysis environment and not seeking the noisy, very distracting political stage," he added.

Golez said the participation of the commission in the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen in December would also be crucial as this would set the direction and framework of the international community in dealing with the phenomenon."