All candidates, and even the Aquino government, declare their adherence to environmental protection and the need for climate change mitigation and adaptation and may even mention token measures. But large-scale, extractive mining, power generation, agro-industrial corporations, the oil industry are either heavily financed by or are destinations of foreign investments. Isn't the fact that the heavy emitters of greenhouse gases are either the mother countries of Multinational Corporations MNCs), such as the US, or the countries where their production processes are located, such as China and India, instructive of their regard for the environment?
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