PGMA set to demand 30 percent carbon emission cut — Alvarez
December 4, 2009 11:02 pm
MANILA, Dec. 4 — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will ask the industrialized world to cut greenhouse gas emission by at least 30 percent at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen scheduled Dec. 7 to 18.
The President, according to Secretary Heherson Alvarez, Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change, will lead the country’s delegation to the United Nations-sponsored conference.
Mrs. Arroyo had presided over the first board meeting of the newly created Climate Change Commission, whose primary objective is “to formulate a framework strategy on climate change and create a technical working group to draft the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act No. 9729, otherwise known as Climate Change Act of 2009.
The Copenhagen Conference of Parties (COP-15) will enable world leaders to meet for the last time, and, hopefully, agree on a new global climate treaty, before the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
During the five rounds of negotiations leading to Copenhagen, Alvarez said, the Philippines called on the United States and China to cut carbon emission by at least 30 percent from 2013 to 2017, 50 percent from 2018 to 2022, and 95 percent by 2050, from the 1990 levels.
The call, Alvarez said, has been endorsed by other countries.
Mrs. Arroyo, as the head of the country’s delegation, will also demand that the industrialized world provide the funds needed by developing countries to cope with the effects of global warming.
Alvarez explained that the U.S. and China and the rest of the rich countries have yet to determine the amount needed to finance adaptation programs in developing countries. (PNA)
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