ICSC leads regional workshop to strengthen CDRFI in SEA
As part of its efforts to broaden understanding CDRFI in Southeast Asia, the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) facilitated a regional workshop with the Multi-Actor Partnership on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (MAP-CDRFI) on 29 May, 2025 at the Makati Diamond Residences, Philippines. “Anchoring our strategies in community‐driven evidence and bottom-up insights ensures they enhance, rather than replace, national policies and international support, so every stakeholder’s perspective shapes the design and delivery of financial protection systems,” stressed ICSC Executive Director Angelo Kairos Dela Cruz in his keynote speech. Aiming to review the process of CDRFI [...]
ICSC and DLSU-JRIG Partner to Boost Climate Finance Utilization in the Philippines
The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), represented by Executive Director Angelo Kairos Dela Cruz, and the De La Salle University Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance (DLSU-JRIG), represented by DLSU Vice President for Research and Innovation Dr. Raymond R. Tan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the De La Salle University Manila on Tuesday, May 27, affirming their commitment to ensure the effective utilization of climate finance. “This is more than forging a partnership, it’s a testament to our shared commitment of advancing inclusive climate resilience and sustainable development at all levels of governance,” says DLSU-JRIG [...]
Information session takes stock of CSO’s role in climate and disaster risk financing
MAKATI CITY, Philippines— Representatives from civil society organizations (CSOs), non-government organizations (NGOs), and government agencies convened in an information session on the Global Shield against Climate Risks to highlight the critical role of CSOs in climate and disaster financing in the Philippines on April 14, 2025. The session was organized by the Global Shield Secretariat, Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), and Start Network, co-organized and with the support from Philippine Department of Finance (DOF). The session provided a deep dive on the Global Shield against Climate Risks, a joint initiative of the Vulnerable 20 Group of Finance [...]
Climate finance accountability needed from both donor and recipient countries – experts at COP29
BAKU, 22 November 2024 –– The 29th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) concludes today, and as negotiations progressed to agree on a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on Climate Finance in the past two weeks, experts from civil society from the Philippines, Ghana, and South Africa emphasized the need for accountability from both donor and recipient countries to effectively address challenges in mobilizing climate finance. “It is everyone’s responsibility to take part in ways of improving the systems that can support a full realization of an accountability approach that holds developed [...]
Dela Cruz: “Climate finance ensures countries survive, and thrive with their dignity intact”
In the beginning of the 29th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), ICSC Executive Director Angelo Kairos dela Cruz was featured in the November 14 broadcast of Dateline Philippines on the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC), highlighting how climate finance can help ensure that small island developing countries, such as the Philippines, are able to develop despite the new normals being set by climate change and its impacts. “Climate finance is the means of implementation. It will ensure that countries will not only survive climate change but thrive as a nation [...]