‘PH should honor Paris climate deal’

Despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s earlier pronouncement that the Philippines will not honor climate change commitments it made under the Paris agreement, Climate Change Commission Vice Chairperson Heherson Alvarez stressed that the deal will be a powerful pillar towards the administration’s industrialization goal.

The Philippines was among 195 nations that pledged last December in Paris to cut down carbon emissions to contain global warming to below two degrees Celsius.