Last February 26, The Climate Reality Project Philippines held a two-day ‘Klima Eskwela: Climate Science, Arts, and Action’ workshop at Pangasinan State University (PSU) Main Campus in Lingayen, Pangasinan.
12 years after Super Typhoon Yolanda wreaked havoc in the island of Leyte, the students of Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU) still remember experiencing the devastations of climate change firsthand.
During Klima Eskwela: Climate Science, Arts, and Action at their campus on November 27-28, the students shared the many ways Yolanda changed their perspective on the climate crisis.
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.
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.
Hosting its biggest group of students yet, Klima Eskwela capped off a successful 2024 run with a stop at the Camarines Norte State College (CNSC).
Klima Eskwela aims to make advocates out of the youth. Its lectures were designed to leverage students’ experience with global warming and from there stir them into action.
More than 80 student leaders from CNSC and neighboring schools joined the two-day event, wherein they were taught to craft campaigns against plastic dependence. Also included in the attendees were senior highschool students.
