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III. WHO DESERVES JUST TRANSITION IN THE PHILIPPINES?

Everyone can be a victim directly or indirectly of climate change. The
impact, however, would be different for every sector or location as
rising global temperatures set off a range of other crises which will
bring the heaviest burdens on the poor and the vulnerable. This is the
reason why Just Transition was aimed to be a holistic approach by
combining social justice and climate solutions into humanity's
common agenda for action. In other words, combating climate
change must also serve the purpose of ending poverty and inequality
and vice versa.

The Philippines is one of the world's lowest carbon emitters, with less
than a one percent contribution to global GHG emissions. Yet it bears
much of the devastation from natural calamities since it is one of the
“most vulnerable” countries to climate change.

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