458. In its mission of protecting the environment, MERF monitors the realization of Studies on Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), the implementation of mitigation measures for the negative impacts of various projects on the environment through its executing agency: the National Agency for Environmental Management (ANGE), created by the framework law on the environment on 30 May 2008 and organized by Decree No. 2009-090 / PR of 22 April 2009. 459. Section 15 of the law tasked ANGE with: "the promotion and implementation of the national system of environmental assessments including impact studies, strategic environmental assessments, environmental audits". As such, the Agency is in charge of managing the process of carrying out this impact study with a view to obtaining the environmental compliance certificate requested by the promoter. 460. In the same vein, it monitors and controls the implementation of the promoters’ specifications, in particular the measures recommended in the environmental and social management plan with a view to mitigating or offsetting the negative impacts of the present project on biophysical and human environments. 2. Combating climate change 461. Togo's commitment to combat climate change is reflected in the integration of the environment and particularly climate change into its national legal framework, notably in Law No. 2008-005 of 30 May 2008 on the framework law and in the Accelerated Growth and Employment Promotion Strategy (SCAPE). In fact, rising temperatures, disorganized rainfall patterns and floods affected agriculture, the country's main economic activity and water resources, thus making the economy vulnerable.  Climate change 462. Government’s efforts are seen especially through the implementtion of three projects namely: - the Project to Adapt Togolese Agriculture to climate change (ADAPT) ; - the Third Communication Project on Climate Change (TCN) ; - The Project to Strengthen Decentralized National Capacities for Environmental Management (PRCNDGE). Togo signed on 19 September 2016, in New York, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change adopted on 12 December 2015 in Paris. Thus, the National Assembly adopted the law authorizing the ratification of this Convention on 23 May 2017 131