Dominguez: CCC to lead global movement for climate justice from international community

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III to put the Climate Change Commission (CCC) at the forefront of the global movement to seek climate justice from the international community, with an eye to drastically cutting carbon emissions and escalating efforts to contain the changing climatic conditions.

Dominguez said that with the Philippines’ National Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement, which sets an ambitious 75-percent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction and avoidance by 2030, “we hope to challenge other countries to act with determination and cohesion to reverse this greatest challenge facing the Earth today.”