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Moving Together Towards Sustainable Urban Mobility

Ira Guerrero2026-06-01T15:25:48+08:0001 Jun 2026|Tags: active mobility, Climate Action, mobility, Southeast Asia, sustainable mobility, sustainable mobility solutions, urban development|

by Beau Baconguis EDITOR'S NOTE: Beau Baconguis is a Member of ICSC's Board of Trustees. She delivered this speech during the two-day event Move Together: Regional Exchange and Workshop on Sustainable Urban Mobility and Placemaking in Southeast Asia, held from May 22-23, 2026. Good morning everyone! I am so [...]

Southeast Asia civil society spurs regional cooperation on Climate and Disaster Risk Financing

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities PRESS RELEASE BANGKOK, THAILAND, 22 May 2026 — As climate and disaster risks continue to intensify across Southeast Asia, regional stakeholders explore a more coordinated approach to Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI), following the conclusion of the Multi-Actor Partnership on [...]

22 May 2026|Tags: adaptation, CDRFI, climate and disaster risk financing and insurance, climate change, Climate Finance, climate risk, disaster finance, disaster risk, MAP-CDRFI, resilience, Southeast Asia|

ICSC: Recurring grid alerts highlight urgent need for decentralized energy in the country

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities PRESS RELEASE QUEZON CITY, May 20, 2026 –– The red and yellow alerts raised over the Luzon and Visayas grids over the past week highlight how outages from several large centralized coal plants can quickly strain the Philippine power system and result in [...]

20 May 2026|Tags: Decentralized Energy Systems, distributed energy systems, energy security, energy transition, grid alert, renewable energy, Rooftop Solar, Solar Energy|

Stop transferring all risks to consumers [Inquirer]

by Pete Maniego, published through Inquirer.net [READ HERE] I have spent almost two decades in the Philippine energy sector—as an engineer, lawyer, executive, chair of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB), and now senior policy adviser to Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), which recently launched Presyo-PH, [...]

15 May 2026|Tags: Consumer Power Bills Philippines, Electricity Market Reform Philippines, energy policy Philippines, EPIRA Electricity Law, ERC Electricity Regulation, Fossil Fuel Energy Crisis, Fuel Cost Pass-Through, Generation Charge Philippines, Philippine Electricity Rates, Philippine Renewable Energy|

ICSC: Rotating blackouts underscore hidden risks of centralized energy infrastructure

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities REACTIVE QUEZON CITY, May 14 2026 –– The latest rotating blackouts across Luzon and Visayas underscore the systemic risks created by concentrating generation and transmission infrastructure in a limited number of large facilities and critical corridors. From the forecasted available capacity in Luzon [...]