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'For a nation so used to hearing one broken promise after another, the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) must not follow in those footsteps.' Opinion Voices
marks two years since the submission of the Philippines’s Nationally Determined Contribution . This policy document is important in setting the nation’s course for addressing the climate crisis.
The “conditional” clause is based on the principle that as highly-vulnerable countries like the Philippines did not contribute much to the climate crisis, they should be assisted in their solution implementation by high-income countries, who are the biggest polluters. It is also aligned with the nation’s championing of climate justice at the global policymaking arena.
Perhaps the most vital to attaining the 75% target is successfully transforming the Philippines’s energy sector from fossil fuel-reliant to renewable energy -dependent. Energy remains the highest-emitting sector, partly due to the dominance of coal in the country’s power generation. This necessitates the significant acceleration of RE development to increase its share in the country’s energy mix.
Ensuring a “just transition” is also a challenge in the energy sector, given the necessary scale of transformation of both the supply and demand side. With the inherently-conflicting vision of a RE-dominated sector that isto attain the NDC target and the current preference for seemingly any other fuel source than RE itself, the burden would ultimately be shouldered by Filipino consumers, who are already enduring one of the highest electricity rates in the Asia-Pacific.
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