Greenwashed and vulnerable to corruption: why the 2027 climate budget fails Filipinos

September 3, 2026

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.

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!

November 18, 2024

Year after year, the Filipino people, particularly the marginalized, endure the devastation of typhoons, while those responsible for environmental destruction escape unscathed.

Environmental Defenders Unite with Dumagat-Remontados Against Kaliwa Dam

May 23, 2024

In celebration of Dumagat Day, the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines Inc. (CEC) expresses its solidarity with the Dumagat-Remontado indigenous people. Dumagat Day is celebrated annually to commemorate the solidarity with the indigenous peoples in defending the environment and strengthening the promotion of their right to ancestral lands and self-determination [2]. Known as virtuous […]

Stop the Attacks, Defend Environmental Defenders!

May 8, 2024

The Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines Inc., together with fellow environmental advocates strongly urgently demands that the issuance of Habeas Data and Writ of Amparo be granted to them and not delayed any further.  Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro were conducting research on reclamation in the coastal communities in Bataan before their abduction last […]

Environmental advocates troop to the United Nations Human Rights Council one year into the Marcos Jr. administration

June 30, 2023

Press Release, June 29, 2023: Geneva, Switzerland – The Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines Inc. (CEC) is part of the delegation of human rights advocates from the Philippine Universal Periodic Review Watch (PH UPR Watch) which attended the 53rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, whose session coincides with the Marcos Jr. administration marking its first year in office.

Intervention submitted by CEC in partnership with Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches (CCIA-WCC) at the 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council

June 28, 2023

The Center of Environmental Concerns – Philippines Inc. (CEC) participated in the 53rd session of the United Nations Human Rights (19 June – 14 July 2023) in Geneva, Switzerland. CEC submitted an intervention in partnership with the National Council of Churches in the Philippines and the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches (CCIA-WCC), during the Interactive Dialogue of the Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights.