Knee-deep in Caloocan’s floodwaters, Dion Angelo dela Rosa gambled his health and safety in search of his missing father, who never came home on July 22, 2025.
He found him three days later, detained in a police substation for the alleged crime of illegal gambling for playing kara y krus, unable to reach his family. By then, the odds were not in Dion’s favor.
The Climate Reality Project Philippines joins hundreds of civil society organizations in expressing dismay over the outcome of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee’s second part of the fifth session for a global agreement to end plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2).
Instead of a robust and legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that addresses the entire life cycle of plastics—from extraction of raw materials to production and design to product use and to disposal—the world is left to wait in the dark as the talks once again failed to reach an agreement.
In his past State of the Nation Addresses (SONA), President Marcos Jr. has repeatedly cast himself as a champion of climate action, placing renewable energy “at the top of [his] climate agenda”.
He has previously pledged to raise renewables’ share in the power mix to 35% by 2030 and 50% by 2040, backed by nearly P3 trillion in green-lane certified investments. Yet since he took office in 2022, renewable energy’s share has stagnated at around 22%.
On May 21, The Climate Reality Project Philippines held its first leg of Klima Eskwela
at Caraga State University in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte.
Designed to engage students in addressing the climate and plastic crises, Klima Eskwela is an offshoot project of the Climate Reality Philippines’ Plastic-Free Reality Program. Every year, the organization takes Klima Eskwela to different provinces, training student leaders in movement-building for climate action.
This year, Klima Eskwela also serves as a launching pad for Project Niche, an incubator program that empowers the youth to solve their communities’ problems with plastic waste.
“The global sustainability revolution is unstoppable, and it’s unstoppable because of advocates like you and the millions of people around the world demanding stronger, more ambitious climate action.”
No less than former US Vice President and The Climate Reality Project Founder Al Gore said these inspiring words, welcoming the participants of the Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps Training in Bacolod City.
This event is part of The REALITY® Tour, The Climate Reality Project’s global initiative to build momentum for bold climate ambition ahead of the United Nations’ climate summit in Brazil in November 2025.
In the upcoming 2025 Midterm Elections, climate action is on the ballot; this is according to a recent survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) and the Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies (ADRi). The robust implementation of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act of 2022 wll play a key role in advancing circular, low-carbon economy in the Philippines.
