FPI is right to warn about Aquino’s Paris commitments

THE Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI) is asking the Aquino Administration to make further consultations before implementing the Paris Summit commitments made by President BS Aquino and his Philippine Climate Change Commission. In his speech in Paris, President Aquino regaled the international community by announcing that our country’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would be down by 70 percent in 2030. The Philippine Climate Change Commission had earlier made that same commitment on October 1, 2015 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the UN-designated international multilateral body tasked to oversee the global effort against Climate Change.

The FPI has issued a solemn statement officially urging “the country delegates to carefully plan for the steps forward in adopting mitigating measures.”  It said: “The FPI signed the Manila Declaration supporting the government’s effort to establish the Intended National Declaration of Contributions (INDC) or the mitigation measures conditioned on these being aligned to national priorities, circumstances and capabilities.”