MANILA, Philippines — Countries that fail to reduce their carbon emissions as they had promised should be sanctioned, President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday in his weekly taped “Talk to the
“Unless the industrialized countries would really help with all their might and commit to reduce the carbon emissions, we cannot do anything about it. Unless they come to their senses, they cannot expect the smaller nations with the least emissions to be forced [to follow] because they themselves refused to do so,” Duterte said, speaking in a mix of English and Filipino.
The president said the Philippines and other smaller countries would be the ones to suffer from the impact of climate change, usually in the form of natural disasters like typhoons. For his part, Secretary Robert Borje of the Climate Change Commission said the Philippine delegation would do its part to call for accountability of developed nations “for what it has done and what it needs to do” in terms of climate change.Duterte then said he planned to go to the next climate change meeting or convention so that he himself could “lecture” the developed nations and voice out the woes of smaller nations.
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