{"id":269584,"date":"2020-09-23T04:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269584"},"modified":"2020-09-24T08:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:43:36","slug":"climate-change-must-be-addressed-as-urgently-as-covid-19-prrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/23\/climate-change-must-be-addressed-as-urgently-as-covid-19-prrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change must be addressed as urgently as Covid-19: PRRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_232207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232207\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-232207\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Developing countries like the Philippines are the most affected by the effects of climate change, which has &#8220;worsened&#8221; the ravages of the pandemic, he said. &#8220;We cannot afford to suffer more.\u201d (Pixabay Photo)ange<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte urged on Wednesday parties of the Paris Agreement to honor their commitment to fighting climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on all parties, especially those who have not made good their commitment to fight climate change, to honor the same,\u201d he said in a speech at the High-Level Debate of the 75th United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Developing countries like the Philippines are the most affected by the effects of climate change, which has &#8220;worsened&#8221; the ravages of the pandemic, he said. &#8220;We cannot afford to suffer more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it was just as important to address climate change as urgently as the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same urgency needed to fight Covid-19 is needed to address the climate crisis. This is a global challenge that has worsened existing inequalities and vulnerabilities from within and between nations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Duterte signed the Paris Agreement which aims to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines earlier pledged a 70-percent cut in emissions by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte urged on Wednesday parties of the Paris Agreement to honor their commitment to fighting climate change. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":232207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5927,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment-nature","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269596,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269584\/revisions\/269596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}