Fighting climate change urgent as battling COVID19, Duterte tells UN
MANILA - The urgency required to fight the raging coronavirus pandemic is also needed to tackle climate change that is affecting the world in different but severe ways, President Rodrigo Duterte said in his first appearance at the UN General Assembly.
"Climate change has worsened the ravages of the pandemic. Peoples in developing countries like the Philippines suffer the most. We cannot afford to suffer more," he said. "The Philippines joined the Paris Agreement to fight climate change. We call on all parties, especially those who have not made good their commitment to fight climate change, to honor the same," he said.
Duterte in 2017 signed the Paris pact years after nearly 200 countries agreed on a binding global compact to slash greenhouse gases and keep global temperature increases to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius. Manila had promised to cut carbon emissions by 70 percent by year 2030, even if the country is not a major emitter.
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