Archives: KLIMA
A Meeting of Missions: Manila Observatory at the Fastenaktion Workshop
Written by Gab Mesina From 24-26 March 2025, representatives from the Manila Observatory participated in the Fastenaktion Policy Influencing workshop held at the St. Michael Retreat House in Antipolo City. This event marks the beginning of a promising partnership between the Manila Observatory...
Lessons for the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage: A Case Study on Accessibility of the People’s Survival Fund in the Philippines
Climate change is here and vulnerable communities need real support! The latest policy research paper from the Klima Center tackles the People’s Survival Fund and its attempts to provide funding to vulnerable communities.
KLIMA CENTER’s SB 60 Thought-Leadership Series E-Zine
Klima representatives flew to Bonn, Germany, in June of 2024 to observe, assess, and learn from the 60th Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies, or SB60. Essentially, the June UN Climate Meetings are held in preparation for the Conference of the Parties (COP)....
A new convergence in Just Transition: Climate change adaptation
Jayvy R. Gamboa The June 2024 UN Climate Change Meetings in Bonn, Germany witnessed the coming into action of the UAE Just Transition work programme, which was adopted at COP 28 (2023) in Dubai. From co-facilitators, co-chairs now lead the Parties. From a...
Less talk: more action – the Loss and Damage impasse
Joy Reyes Despite headways made during COP28 with regard to Loss and Damage, including the establishment of the Loss and Damage Fund and the consensus to have the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the UNOPS host the secretariat of the Santiago...
Life imitates a̶r̶t̶ climate fiction: SB60s, where climate action is discussed, not funded
Bernardine B. de Belen At the top of my Did Not Finish pile, which pertains to books you put down before finishing, is The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It is a climate fiction novel putting us in the extremely...
What does “on track” look like? A glimpse of the first year following the first Global Stocktake
he question is, are we “on track”? If we keep things the way that it is, without proper implementation and follow up on the GST outcome, and without following through with our NDCs, we are not on track. But, if a sense of...
From the Perspective of the Youngest People in the Room: A Look at ADB’s ACEF 2024
Tom Alberto, Sabby Arambulo, Danii Nepomuceno – June 19, 2024 Originally published here on the RENDER Website. RENDER attended the Asian Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Korea Energy Agency (KEA), is a...
Sustainable Energy Policy Blueprint
This report was authored by John Altomonte, Ruby Descalzo, Hannah Guinto, and Jaime Iñigo (Manila Observatory). Urban areas house more than half of the world’s population and are responsible for over 70% of energy-related CO 2 emissions worldwide. With cities expanding and their...
Enabling a Sustainable Energy Transition in Dumaguete City
Increasing climate commitments worldwide have prompted transitions to low-carbon economies. In response to this, United States Agency for International Development – Energy Secure Philippines Activity is supporting Manila Observatory’s project entitled “Enabling a Sustainable Energy Transition in Dumaguete City”. The project aims to enable the...
Klima Navigates Avenues of Climate Action at FASSCon 2024
by Jan Cherome Sison and Bernardine de Belen At the recently held 5th Ateneo Social Sciences Conference 2024, Atty. Jayvy Gamboa and Atty. Jameela Joy Reyes presented their research papers entitled “Just Transition Assessment Tool (JTAT) for Social Impacts of Climate Action as...
Klima Center of the Manila Observatory Condemns the Abduction of Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro
KLIMA CENTER OF THE MANILA OBSERVATORY CONDEMNS THE ABDUCTION OF JHED TAMANO AND JONILA CASTRO On September 2, 2023, environmental defenders Jhed Tamano, 22, and Jonila Castro, 21, were forcibly disappeared in Bataan. As they are both volunteers for AKAP KA Manila Bay,...
Accelerating Mitigation Efforts in the Asia Pacific: SB58
By Tonichi Regalado After two weeks of haze and uncertainty, the annual Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB58) finally adopted an agenda. Heads of Delegation reached a compromise wherein the Sharm el-Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Programme (MWP) would be excluded from the...
Back at Bonn Climate Change Conference, yet What’s New?
By Antonio La Viña, Joy Reyes, and Jayvy Gamboa The 58th session of the subsidiary bodies (SB) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is set to be held on 5 to 15 June 2023. Again, it will be held...
Loss and Damage: Perspectives from Southeast Asia
By Antonio La Viña, Joy Reyes, Ma. Laurice Jamero, Lora Batino Warathida Chaiyapa, Boonsuchada Inthapat, Neo John Joseph Sacramento Joan Jamisolamin According to the Global Climate Risk Index, among the top ten countries at risk of...
ACT2025: Beyond Dialoguing to Action and Support to Avert, Minimize, and Address Loss and Damage
By Tonichi Regalado (KLIMA – Manila Observatory) Allied for Climate Transformation by 2025 (ACT2025) partners, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCAD) and the Manila Observatory (MO) held a side event entitled “Beyond Dialoguing to Action and Support to avert, minimize and...
Loss and Damage: Now or Never
By Joy Reyes, Aya de Leon, and Niner Guiao With the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) mere days away, it’s all systems go for developing countries and NGOs, who are waiting to see if...
Supertyphoon Odette: Precautionary Tale
By: Antonio Gabriel M. La Viña, Yla Gloria Marie P. Paras, Jameela Joy M. Reyes When Typhoon Odette ravaged the Philippines in December 2021, many were caught by surprise. While families knew what to do in case of rain, hardly anyone saw what...
Impacts of Taal Volcano Phreatic Eruption (12 January 2020) on the Environment and Population: Satellite-Based Observations Compared with Historical Records
By Ma. Flordeliza P. Del Castillo1, Patricia Mae J. Paraiso1, May Celine T.M. Vicente1, Ma. Laurice P. Jamero2, Gemma T. Narisma3,4 1 Geomatics for Environment and Development, Manila Observatory 2 Resilience Collaboratory, Manila Observatory 3 Regional Climate Systems 4 Department of Physics, Ateneo...