Despite a global hope for stronger climate action, the 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30) ended without securing an explicit callout to phase out fossil fuels. As global climate negotiations remain slow to push for a total fossil fuel phaseout, climate change is sure to continue worsening– the adverse impacts of which are greatly felt in the Philippines.
Days before 30th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Climate (UNFCCC) also known as COP30 in Belém, Brazil, The Climate Reality Project Philippines hosted a self-organized dialogue on the Global Ethical Stocktake (GES) harnessing the voices of leaders in Southeast Asia, and our collective power towards climate action.
Entitled Connect, Care, Commit: this event was also supported by Climate Reality Indonesia and AktivAsia. The event aimed to localize the GES by fostering a space of reflection among Southeast Asian advocates within the Climate Reality Project network.
Its first stop was at Clark, Pampanga, held at Quest Plus Conference Center last October 28.
True to its mission of driving the country’s low-carbon transition, The Climate Reality Project Philippines in partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE), has once again kickstarted its Choosing REnewables, an information campaign and public consultation on the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) and other voluntary renewable energy mechanisms, to drive the private and public sector’s shift to clean energy.
Its first stop was at Clark, Pampanga, held at Quest Plus Conference Center last October 28.
The Climate Reality Project Philippines gathered representatives from national government agencies (NGAs), local government units (LGUs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and the academe for Klima Pandayan #MoveTogether— a capacity and movement building workshop on sustainable urban mobility.
“This event puts a spotlight on Sustainable Mobility -by sharing innovative solutions for active and public transport infrastructures and integration, this can lead to a movement towards a more sustainable, inclusive and efficient transportation system,” said Aimee P. Oliveros, Interim Branch Manager of Climate Reality Philippines.
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.
The Climate Reality Project Philippines, with support from the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), recently conducted a series of regional consultations on multistakeholder engagement in achieving the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
Held consecutively in Quezon City, Bacolod City, and Davao City, the Reimagine NDC consultations gathered representatives from the local government, the private sector, and civil society to discuss their roles in advancing the nation’s climate commitments.
