[OPINION] Should the Philippines commit to ‘net-zero’ for climate action?

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'When it comes to climate action, being neutral is not enough'

revealed its 2050 net-zero plan to include poverty alleviation, circularity-related practices, and more sustainable supply chains.

Yet the Philippines should still mitigate its own pollution. As an industrializing nation that is also among the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, it has the imperative to avoid repeating the same pollutive development pathways of high-income countries that caused this problem. A cleaner development pathway also provides numerous socioeconomic opportunities that would enable our country to achieve its national development goals and targets.

The NDC was notably missing key details and pledges that were otherwise expected to appear, such as a net-zero commitment. As the country included a statement to have its emissions peak by 2030 before a steady decline, evenwould arguably still fit with what the government was presenting; this makes said absence even more outstanding.Part of the reasons why this did not occur may have been due to the state of our forestry sector, which is needed for the other half of the net-zero equation.

 

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