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Greenwashed and vulnerable to corruption: why the 2027 climate budget fails Filipinos
During the recent presentation of the ₱7.2-trillion national budget 2027 National Expenditure Program (NEP), ₱692.7 billion, or roughly 9.62% of the proposed budget, was allocated to climate adaptation or mitigation, as tagged by government agencies using the Climate Change Expenditure Tagging system. While this increased by a measly 0.07% from the previous year, the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines views the budget as greenwashed, grey infrastructure-heavy, prone to corruption, and greatly insufficient to respond to the realities faced by communities most impacted by the climate crisis.
Four Years After: End Environmental Plunder, Defend the Defenders!
“Mayaman ang kalikasan ng Pilipinas, ngunit naghihirap ang mamamayang Pilipino dahil sa lokal at dayuhang kapitalistang pandarambong ng mga korporasyon na pinapahintulutan at hinihikayat ng pamahalaan.” (The Philippine environment is rich, but the Filipino people are suffering due to local and foreign capitalist plunder of corporations enabled and encouraged by the government.)
[PRESS RELEASE ] Leading to Marcos Jr.’s Fourth State of the Nation Address, Environmental Groups Deliver a Scathing ‘Failed’ Verdict on the State of the Philippine Environment
QUEZON CITY, Philippines — Ahead of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA), environmental organizations, grassroots alliances, scientists, and advocates delivered a scathing “failed” verdict on the administration’s environmental governance during the “Plundered, Not Poor: State of the Philippine Environment (SPE) 2026” forum held on July 10 at the Institute of Biology Auditorium, University of the Philippines Diliman.
Prioritize people and planet, end environmental plunder and attacks on defenders!
This June 5, World Environment Day, the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) extends its solidarity with the Filipino people in exposing the severe environmental crises in our nation. More than honoring the environment, we demand the genuine prioritization of our communities and ecosystems over corporate greed and foreign profit.
Rising for climate justice is demanding accountability and reparations for environmental destruction caused by foreign capitalist plunder and the complicit Duterte and Marcos Jr. governments!
Year after year, the Filipino people, particularly the marginalized, endure the devastation of typhoons, while those responsible for environmental destruction escape unscathed.
The need for a just and sustainable energy sector
To address climate change, we need to transition from fossil fuel energy sources to renewable energy. However, this should be towards a just and sustainable energy sector to ensure its benefits for the people.