The worsening climate crisis, lingering pandemic, and increasingly unreliable and inequitable energy systems provide the Philippines an unparalleled opportunity to rethink its energy sector, and sustained reliance on fossil fuels would only keep the country from reaping the full benefits of its readily available renewable energy sources. CEED explores this in its latest report: Switching On Transformative Energy.

In renewable energy-rich and climate-vulnerable Philippines, both houses of Congress are deliberating bills that seek to develop the midstream and down-stream fossil gas industries. bridge, in the country’s low-carbon transition. While we have yet to fully phase-out the coal industry, the single largest driver of the climate emergency, we are yet again developing another fossil fuel without a clear phase-out plan in sight.

Withdraw from Coal (WFC) unveils an April 2021 update of its Coal Divestment Scorecard, a tool developed by WFC to help Philippine banks and their stakeholders assess their exposure to coal and the accompanying risks and impacts of financing it, ahead this year’s Earth Day and the Annual Stockholders Meetings of three banks found to be the biggest local financiers of coal in the last decade.

Civil society groups are challenging the Asian Development Bank anew to jumpstart Asia’s energy transition by decarbonizing its energy investments portfolio. Read CEED and the NGO Forum on ADB's latest publication here.

The Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development is a research institution that advocates for energy democracy, ecological integrity, and a people-centered development path. A young organization established in 2015, CEED is composed of individuals with a heart for the environment and for the people.