I'm a climate journalist living in Metro Manila, Philippines.

Tree-planting here, coastal clean up there. How exactly do these sustainability measures help in the fight against climate change?Enter En-Roads, a climate simulator legally owned and developed by Climate Interactive, with MIT Sloan as co-developers. Based on the best available science, it allows users to explore the impact of various policies and sustainability measures on our climate all with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C goal in mind. It's been used by decision makers in governments, businesses,...

Filipino artist Cian Dayrit is among the artists featured in the "A World of Water," an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in the UK, which highlights the spiritual and material significance of water. Opening March 15, "A World of Water" launches the ambitious season named Can the Seas Survive Us?, exploring the sea's power to shape, connect and disrupt human history.Curated by Filipino curator John Kenneth Paranada, "A World of Water" brings together contemporary and historical...

If there's one thing to learn from Germanwatch's 2025 Climate Risk Index report (CRI), it's that climate change is not a problem in the faraway future. It's already happening now, and in the Philippines, it's already a lived reality. Published on Wednesday, the CRI 2025 showed the Philippines as the 10th country most affected by extreme weather events in the last 30 years.The report highlighted how the Philippines is "hit by multiple tropical cyclones in every year between 1993-2022," enduring a...

The Philippines experienced a parade of six typhoons within a month, and according to a study by World Weather Attribution (WWA), climate change had a lot to do with the unusual weather event.Released this week, the WWA study found that climate change made the conditions that formed and fueled the typhoons nearly twice as likely. “The analysis also found that the typhoon-favoring conditions will continue to increase as the climate warms, boosting the chances of destructive typhoons hitting the P...

COP29 ran into overtime, officially finishing at 5:31 a.m. on Sunday morning, with a less than desirable result.Scheduled to conclude on Friday evening, what was known as the Finance COP delivered not only a new finance goal of $300 billion by 2035 but incredible drama that kept exhausted delegates, observers, and attendees up and running all the way to its Sunday morning end — at least those who did not have flights to catch.The Philippine delegation had already left their seats by the time the...

Amid the parade of typhoons that has battered the country in recent weeks, the Philippines managed to become the only Southeast Asian country to figure in the Top 10 of the Climate Change Performance Index 2025 (CCPI), launched at the side lines of the 29th United Nations Conference of Parties in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday.Published by GermanWatch, the NewClimate Institute, and CAN International, the CCPI is an independent monitoring tool that tracks climate mitigation performance of more tha...