Aksyon Klima Pilipinas

Official statement on the 2026 Philippines Nationally Determined Contribution Aksyon Klima Pilipinas (AKP) acknowledges the 2026 Philippine Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) as an improvement over the 2021 climate pledge. It trends in the right direction for raising national ambition in addressing the climate crisis, but fails to present the needed…

It’s official: 1.5°C is now inevitable. Per the latest report of the UN Environment Programme, global warming is likely to exceed 1.5°C of warming – the long-term benchmark under the Paris Agreement – in the next few years. Without improvements to current policies, our world could be warmer by 2.6°C…

The proposed Pax Silica initiative claims that it will provide an opportunity for the Philippines to participate in the global transition toward clean technologies, digital infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing. However, we as Aksyon Klima Pilipinas (AKP) maintains that industrial transformation must be guided by the principles of a just transition—one…

The Philippine government declared PHP648.7 billion for climate action under the 2026 national budget – yet this number is more than what the country actually has, according to civil society groups. It is much lower than last year’s PHP1.15-trillion national climate budget, largely due to the redirection of billions of…

27 July 2026 The Filipino nation deserved to listen to a 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA) where President Bongbong Marcos presented an honest report about the state of the country. Instead, too much of his speech was spent doing damage control over his administration’s failures and misreading realities…