The APAEC is not a symbolic document. It is ASEAN’s central framework for energy cooperation, shaping national policies, investment decisions, and regional collaboration across its 11 member states. The stakes are, therefore, high.

Communities have been told that renewable energy is the solution to the country’s overlapping crises of climate vulnerability, high electricity costs, and dependence on fossil fuels. But for many Filipinos, the transition has not felt clean, safe, or fair. Across urban-poor communities, lakeshore villages, provincial schools, and agricultural barangays, people are asking the same questions: Who decides what kind of energy projects are built? Who benefits? And who bears the cost?

Are you a small or medium-sized business, social enterprise, or community-based initiative invested in addressing unpaid care and domestic work through entrepreneurship? If yes, this grant may be for you.

Maaasahan ninyo na kaisa ang Oxfam Pilipinas sa pagpapalakas ng tinig ng mga kababaihan, hanggang sa makatawid ito mula sa mga isla't pamayanan patungo sa plenaryo.

An elderly Indigenous woman purchases food ahead of Cyclone Trami’s landfall in the Philippines. Credit: Humanity & Inclusion

In 2009, high-income countries committed in the Copenhagen Accords to mobilize US$100 billion a year by 2020 in climate finance for low- and middle-income countries.