Participants from national government agencies, private sector, civil society organizations, academe and development partners convened in “Philippines NDC 2025: Raising Ambition Towards a Climate-Resilient Future” held on 03 December 2025 in Mandaluyong City.

MANILA, Philippines | 3 December 2025 — As the Philippines continues preparations for its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 2025 submission, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) engaged key partners in a stakeholder consultation to strengthen the country’s efforts to update the NDC based on evolving priorities and national circumstances.

The consultation activity focused on presenting the indicative NDC 2025 overall and sectoral commitments, ensuring that these reflect national development priorities and stakeholder concerns.

The Official Representative of the President to the CCC, Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) underscored the importance of recalibrating from the business-as-usual scenario to reflect the current economic realities and sectoral growth and improved emissions data. This recalibration, he noted, is crucial to strengthen accuracy, transparency and integrity. “To deliver on the NDC, we continue to fortify our monitoring, reporting and verification systems so that we can measure progress, identify gaps and refine policies as needed.”

CCC Vice Chairperson and Executive Director Robert E.A. Borje emphasized that this part of the updating process scales up climate action and lays out a clear and ambitious pathway across all sectors that is anchored on transparency and broad ownership.

“By linking our natural ecosystems with energy, transport, industry and agriculture, we are not just setting targets on paper, we are creating a roadmap that turns ambition into action that builds a resilient, low-carbon and inclusive future,” Borje said.

Sectoral agencies—DENR, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, and Department of Agriculture—presented their respective mitigation pathways, including finalized policies and measures (PAMS), mitigation potentials, and sectoral targets covering energy, transport, agriculture, forestry and land use (FOLU), waste, and industrial processes and product use (IPPU). These presentations underscored significant opportunities for emissions reduction and resilience-building, while also outlining challenges that require strengthened cooperation among national and local governments, the private sector, and development partners.

In the afternoon breakout sessions, participants from government, civil society, academe, LGUs, and development partners engaged in open dialogues to provide detailed inputs on sectoral commitments. Discussions focused on ensuring that NDC targets are actionable, achievable, and aligned with local realities—particularly on just transition pathways, financing needs, capacity building, and monitoring and reporting mechanisms.

Key messages from the breakout groups highlighted the need to accelerate renewable energy deployment, strengthen sustainable transport systems, protect natural ecosystems, ensure food security, scale up nature-based solutions, enhance waste management systems, and increase support for local governments who serve as frontliners in climate action.

The CCC noted that insights gathered through the engagement will feed into the finalization of the NDC 2025, ensuring that the document not only raises ambition but also reflects a unified national effort to contribute to the global 1.5°C goal.

These efforts aim to not only perform the whole-of-government approach alone, but also to highlight that the NDC pursues an economy-wide and whole-of-society approach to ensure legitimacy, broad ownership, and collective resolve needed to turn commitments into real and lasting outcomes.