54 Years After: Stand against the plunder of our environment and sovereignty

September 21, 2026

Fifty-four years after the declaration of Martial Law under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the Philippines remains locked in a harrowing cycle of state fascism, ecological devastation, and subservience to foreign powers. Today, under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the Filipino people still struggle against the same tyrannical framework that plundered our natural resources and suppressed fundamental rights decades ago. The Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) firmly stands with the Filipino people in condemning the persistent human rights violations, environmental plunder, and the betrayal of national sovereignty perpetuated from one Marcos regime to the next.

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.

Enforced disappearances expose the regime’s prioritization of greed over people and the environment

August 30, 2026

On this International Day of the Disappeared, the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) stands in solidarity with the families of forcibly disappeared individuals, demanding that all desaparecidos be surfaced and that justice be served in their cases.

Protect IP Rights, Reject Pax Silica and Destructive Projects

August 9, 2026

As we mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) joins Indigenous communities, environmental defenders, and civil society in reiterating the urgent demand to defend ancestral lands, reject Pax Silica and similar foreign-driven extractive agendas, and uphold the rights of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) who stand at the frontlines of environmental protection.

URGENT ALERT: CEC Calls for the Release of Dupax del Norte Anti-Mining Environmental Defender

August 4, 2026

The Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines (CEC) joins environmental advocates and local communities in calling for an immediate end to the escalating attacks against residents of Nueva Vizcaya who are defending their lands and homes from destructive mining.

Four Years After: End Environmental Plunder, Defend the Defenders!

July 27, 2026

“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.)