The Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Working Group (WG) on Climate Change and Development, a coalition of over 30 organizations working on climate change-related issues, calls on President Gloria 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.