Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte. By Ryan Lim – Malacañang Photo Bureau, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49111973
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who won the Presidency in May this year, by promising law and order, and economic development, has demanded up front compensation to meet Paris Climate Commitments – otherwise his country will focus on increasing coal generation capacity, to facilitate continued economic progress.
He said he was angry with that ambassador and “wanted to kick him” when the diplomat asked him if the Philippines could maintain its carbon emissions.
“I said, ‘No. I cannot tell… You don’t do it that way, Mr. Ambassador. (Your country) had reached the apex (of industrialization) and along the way put a lot of contaminants and emission and went ahead in destroying the climate,’” the President said.
“We have not reached the age of industrialization. We’re now going into it. But you…
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