PH climate measures lack urgency despite vulnerable status, experts say

According to global think tank Climate Analytics, the Philippines is not doing enough to adhere to the Paris Agreement, a 2015 climate pact signed by nations to address climate change by curbing carbon emissions and other harmful activities.

Parra said carbon emissions should peak at 2020 if the world wants to limit global heating by 1.5 degrees Celsius. At this level, the occurrence of severe heatwaves and droughts can be reduced. “We assess both current targets and projected emissions levels for the Philippines and find that there is a lot of uncertainty around the way that the Philippines defined its NDC target, and very little transparency around the underlying BAU scenario behind it, as well as the contribution of different sectors to the achievement of the NDC,” Parra told ABS-CBN News.

“This far exceeds the phase-out date derived from regional benchmarks for Paris Agreement compatible scenarios, which sees coal-fired power being phased out in the ASEAN region at the latest by 2040,” Parra said. It also cited the government’s approval of several coal plant projects such as the supercritical “clean” coal-fired power plants in Bataan and Atimonan, Quezon. These power plants are considered more efficient but not necessarily emission-free.

A May 2019 report of Climate Analytics on the Southeast Asian region states that while renewable energy share is decreasing in the Philippines . “Instead, we must increase the conditional target, even as we offer a separate unconditional one, to show what we are already doing and to shame big emitters into cutting emissions far more and far earlier,” he said.

Parra said the world is still far from reaching peak coal emissions, which should ideally be done by 2020. He called it a betrayal of against the young people who led climate strikes all over the world and "against the people at the frontlines who experience the most severe impacts of climate change."

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