Climate and energy policy group Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities has a lot of good things to say about President Duterte’s legacy in terms of climate action and renewable energy, even as the leader prepares to wrap up his six-year tenure in Malacañang.
Duterte is set to deliver his sixth and final State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 26. He will have stepped down from Malacañang by the end of June next year.“Coal today is demonstrably expensive and unreliable, which means the Department of Energy’s leadership deserves to be commended for prioritizing flexible generation as a key strategy to modernizing the country’s power system.
“But we must do more and ensure the national plan is anchored on resilience and the knowledge that science is imparting to us. We need more than just the usual medium-term time frames,” she noted.