This Fellowship Reminded Me Why I Chose Journalism
by Sanaf Marcelo Editor’s Note: Sanaf is ICSC’s Senior Communications Officer for Media and Events, who also served as project lead for the latest run of the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship which concluded in March 2025. Prior to joining ICSC, Sanaf worked as a journalist and media practitioner with experience spanning radio, mainstream, and alternative media. Leading the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship has not only brought me closer to the work I once did, it has reminded me why I chose journalism in the first place. As someone who spent years chasing stories from the ground, [...]
2024 Klima Fellows highlight underreported local climate, energy transition stories
QUEZON CITY, March 25, 2025 – Ten teams of local journalists and visual storytellers presented their final stories for the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship (JEKCF) 2024 on Tuesday, March 25, during the program’s culminating activity in Quezon City. These reports are part of a five-month fellowship organized by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), which ran from November 2024 to March 2025. The fellowship is designed to strengthen climate and energy reporting in the Philippines by featuring in-depth stories of communities in the frontlines of the energy transition in the country. This marks the second round [...]
ICSC grants 2024 Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship to 10 teams
QUEZON CITY, 25 November 2024 – Ten teams composed of journalists and visual storytellers from across the Philippines have been selected as Fellows for the second batch of the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship. These Fellows will produce compelling stories that highlight the challenges and opportunities of the country’s transition to renewable energy systems. Now in its second year, the Fellowship continues to pay tribute to the late Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina, a journalist and passionate advocate for press freedom and media workers’ welfare. The Fellowship program, organized by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, recognizes the need [...]
ICSC reopens climate and energy story grant for Filipino journalists
QUEZON CITY, October 8, 2024 – The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) is now accepting applications for the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship this 2024. ICSC is a Philippine-based non-government organization advocating fair climate policy and low carbon, climate-resilient development. Now in its second round, this Fellowship was initially launched in 2022 to honor the late Jaime “Nonoy” Espina, a veteran journalist and former chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), who passed away in 2021. Journalists and visual storytellers will be selected in the program that includes: Five-month story grant: The program, [...]
[Klima Reports] Raising the bar: Part 2 – Benguet towns to partner with Beneco for sustainable power supply
The Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) initial foray into renewable energy generation in Man-asok Buguias, Benguet is the first of many planned for the province to make Benguet self-reliant when it comes to energy.