The CSO Working Group on Climate Change and Development, a coalition of over 30 organizations working on climate change-related issues, calls on President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo to take a long and careful look at the Copenhagen Accord and firmly resist being rushed into committing the Philippines to the highly controversial and widely-criticized document, without a thorough study and deliberations of its implications on our climate survival and its consequences on our economic development.
The group also calls on the new Climate Change Commission to initiate serious discussions among different sectors on the political, economic, and environmental ramifications of the Accord, and urges presidential candidates to speak their minds on this important issue that will have long-term effects on the lives of the Filipino people.
“An ambiguous, non-legally binding deal forged by only 26 nations led by President Barack Obama and orchestrated by Danish Premier Rasmussen can not be a substitute for the legally-binding Kyoto Protocol which was crafted and agreed by all Parties under a transparent process, and which binds developed countries to cut their GHG emissions and pay for their historical culpability in polluting the atmospheric space,” says Chito Tionko of the CSO WG.
“It is the US, the EU and other developed countries that should change their production and consumption patterns and cut their greenhouse gas emissions drastically now in order for the earth to have a chance to recover”, Tionko asserts.
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