MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) agrees with this observation that the low unconditional commitments put to question how serious government is in pursuing our commitments to the Paris Climate Agreements. We note further the following concerns of the current draft of the Philippines NDC (Nationally Determined Commitments):
DENR has no clear reduction targets from forest, DA sees no growth potential for organic agriculture & that farmers are only moved by income, DoTR is into this agenda as co-benefit for its mobility agenda & seemed to be failing in its "just transition" in phasing out PUVs, DoE still justifies the continuity of coal. Between these 4 line agencies, they are managing actions that has the most driving force in climate impacts and these red lights are not so promising. CCC (Climate Change Commission) insist that they are for higher target ambitions from 30% to 75% but most government agencies have no proposed improvement on the component on unconditional targets justifying that they do not want to commit beyond what they can deliver based on their capacities. Which basically means, we are not really owning the actions needed to achieve this ambitious target. While labeled as a multi-stakeholder consultation, glaring is the lack of participation of industry and private sector which government has chosen obviously to dialogue with separately. So in a lot of sense, the title of this consultation is misleading and does not give a chance to non government players and other stakeholders to effectively engage industry and we have no way at the point to truly confirm and monitor if their fair share of the NDC target are sufficient and what they are actually doing with its realization. It seems the message here by government is that industry is "untouchable". NBS - Nature Based Solutions (NBS) is a new buzzword dangerously being applied to too broad number of actions that needs to be justified before considering. Some of the unsaid remains the inclusion of nuclear energy as option for renewable energy, "sustainable plantations" are being justified as NBS, and waste-to-energy system that have found itself in the NDC targets of government line agencies. So a lot more really needs to be done. We are at this point not satisfied with government's ambitions and commitments To understand more the CLIMATE ACTION AGENDA of MAKAKALIKASAN, please read this: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/climate--public-health-emergency-actions.html JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.climateactions To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: Makakalikasan Assembly Original article A document draft outlines the Philippines’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – our commitments to combating climate change and environmental degradation. The draft indicates a 75% target decrease in emissions. We welcome this ambitious goal – but in the fine details, it is not enough, with only a 2.71% emission cutback hardcoded into our plans. We need to achieve that 75%. We need to meet the commitments we’ve set down on paper, and we need to start working towards them today. Read more
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MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) is equally concern, together with other green groups about how the increase from 30% to 75% carbon GHG emission targets that current draft of the country's NDC will be achieve with the continuing plans for more coal-fired power plants and therefor the low commitment for emission reduction from the energy sector. We will continue to monitor the emerging NDC targets of the country.
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