Climate Change Network for Community-based Initiatives - CCNCI

02/10/2026

𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐃𝐀 𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐀 𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐒𝐀 𝐒𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐁𝐀𝐘 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓
Nakausap ng Climate Change Network for Community Initiatives ang mga lider ng mga lokal na organisasyon ng mga mangigngisda ng San Miguel Bay sa Camarines Sur, Philippines kung saan pinaliwanag nila ang banta ng San Miguel Bay Offshore Wind Project sa kanilang kabuhayan.

Ayon sa kanila, sakop ng naturang proyekto ang 15 kilometro ng baybayin na pinagkukunan ng kabuhayan ng mga lokal na mangingisda. Dahil dito, kinakailangan nilang pumalaot sa mas malayo. Inaasahan din na may masidhing epekto ang pagtatayo nito sa katubigan sapagkat sisirain nito ang mga tirahan ng lamang-dagat.

Panawagan ng mga mangingisda ng Calabanga, Camarines Sur ang agarang pagtigil sa pagtatayo ng naturang proyekto sapagkat kabuhayan ang kapalit sa hangarin ng rehiyon na lumipat sa malinis na porma ng enerhiya. Walang hustisyang pangklima kung tahasan nitong sinasagasaan ang kabuhayan ng mga lokal na komunidad at kasama ang CCNCI sa pagtatambol ng kanilang panawagan para sa pagtigil sa naturang proyekto.

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01/10/2026

ICYMI: The Climate Change Network for Community-based Initiatives' (CCNCI) Policy & Advocacy Officer Charles Edmon Perez joined the Artist Alliance for Peasant Rights' (AAPR) exhibit entitled "Faux Pax: No Peace Without Genuine Land Reform" held in the Rift Gallery at the V.V. Soliven Building along EDSA in San Juan City, Metro Manila.

The photo set entitled "Tigang na ang Lupa sa Calabanga" exhibits the documentation work of CCNCI during its field work in Calabanga, Camarines Sur where they interviewed former students of Tarabang Para sa Bicol's - Bicol Farmers School (BFS) in order to garner insight on how the recent heat wave brought by the El Niño season has affected local farmers in the concrete application of agroecology.

The photo showcases the pineapple farm of Benjamin Argayoso from the 6th batch of students from BFS whose crops was rendered useless due to the intense heat of the region. Argayoso expressed that amidst the sweltering heat of the El Niño season, the land nurtured by agroecology has proven to be more heat-resilient compared to more conventional methods because of organic compost and the diversification of crops for better soil-water retention.

However, he emphasized that government support is still keen on pushing chemical farming practices, whose intense utilization of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides has only made the land more vulnerable to heat. Government programs have focused on supplementary aid through the inputs that barely address the drought.
In context, Argayoso explained that irrigation is scarce in most local farming communities in Calabanga, Camarines Sur and access to water has been a challenging task amidst the absence of rainfall. He stressed that what their community needs is irrigation but government has failed to heed their calls.

𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

30/09/2026

ICYMI: CCNCI joined various groups under the No to SALEX Movement in filing a petition at Manila City Hall urging the Manila City Government to reconsider its Certificate of No Objection to the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEX) and pushing for the cancellation of the project. SALEX is a proposed 40.65-kilometer elevated expressway network by San Miguel Corporation that would link Metro Manila to the controversial New Manila International Airport in Bulacan.

The petition outlines the project’s serious potential impacts, including the destruction of heritage sites, displacement of communities, loss of the city’s remaining biodiversity areas, conflict with climate change mitigation goals, and increased disaster risks.

Shortly after the petitioners arrived, more than 50 police and security personnel were deployed to the area, who photographed and questioned the petitioners. This was an act of intimidation against citizens raising legitimate concerns and exercising their lawful and democratic right to petition and engage the city government on a project that will affect communities, heritage, and the environment.

SALEX is another addition to San Miguel Corporation’s massive infrastructure portfolio, raising significant environmental and climate concerns. Similar concerns have been raised about the New Manila International Airport, where thousands of mangroves were cleared for the project and hundreds of fisherfolk were displaced.

As communities face worsening floods, extreme weather, and escalating climate risks, we need infrastructure and nature-based solutions that protect people and ecosystems, not projects that put us further at risk.

! Protect Manila’s communities, heritage, trees, and remaining green spaces!

Photos from: The Adamson Chronicle, The Manila Collegian

26/09/2026

𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐀𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐒𝐀 𝐇𝐔𝐖𝐀𝐃 𝐍𝐀 𝐊𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍
Inaprubahan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte noong Hunyo 27, 2022 ang Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEX) na isang proyekto ng San Miguel Infrastructures na binubuo ng Shoreline Expressway, C3-R10 Extension, Quirion Extension, at Buendia Extension.

Dahil sa naturang proyekto, itinumba ng mga tauhan ng San Miguel Corporation ang mahigit 245 na mga puno sa kahabaan ng Quirino na siyang ikinagalit ng taumbayan sapagkat inaasahan ang daluyong ng mga masamang epekto sa kalikasan, kabuhayan, at tirahan.

Ipinaliwanag ni Center for Environmental Concerns Executive Director Mattie Balagat ang SALEX Project at kung paano nito sasagasaan ang kultura ng Maynila sa ngalan ng huwad na kaunlaran na ipinagkakalandakan ng San Miguel Corporation

𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐗 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

24/09/2026

19/09/2026

𝐂𝐂𝐍𝐂𝐈 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟑𝐑𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄'𝐒 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐓

The Climate Change Network for Community-based Initiatives (CCNCI) presented on the 3rd People's Science Summit which was held in the Philippine Science High School on September 12, 2026.

CCNCI's presentation tackled the worsening climate crisis and the benefits of agroecology in the overall national production in capacitating farmers to be ready for the incoming Super El Niño that is said to reach record braking levels in the rise of temperature.

#𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐍𝐨𝐰!

11/09/2026

POLICE, SERVE THE PEOPLE!
NOT THE ENVIRONMENTAL PLUNDERERS!

Today, September 10, 2026, 5 paralegals were arrested and 27 others hurt at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Bonifciao Global City, during Luzon Economic Corridor Invertors Forum as police and protesters clash.

Foreign capitalists that plan to exploit and profit form our country's resources and cheap labor are welcomed with warmth and hospitality while Filipinos that opposes and calls to reject the Pax Silica Initiative and protect the environment are met with brutality and force.

CCNCI stongly condemns the action of the police towards the progressive individuals expressing their grievances towards the corrupt government and is calling for President B**g B**g Marcos Jr. to put the people and the environment first and reject the exploitative and destructive Pax Silica.

08/09/2026

WATCH: The Climate Change Network for Community-based Initiatives (CCNCI) interviews Networks Opposed to Pax Silica Convenor (NO to Pax Silica) and AGHAM Spokesperson Dr. Giovanni A. Tapang commenting on the climate impacts of the proposed US-led initiative.

02/09/2026

Climate budget bilyon, pero bakit lalo tayong binabaha?

In an interview with Brigada News FM, Executive Director Mattie Balagat of Center for Environmental Concerns, founding member organization of Climate Change Network for Community-based Initiatives (CCNCI) points to the glaring contradictions in the Marcos Jr. administration’s climate policies. While billions in climate-related funds are poured into gray infrastructure, including flood-control projects plagued by corruption, far less is invested in real solutions such as forest restoration and ecosystem protection, and community-based climate action.

At the same time, destructive projects, from large-scale mining to the proposed mega infrastructure SALEX, continue to threaten forests, watersheds, and communities, worsening our vulnerability to climate impacts.

When forests are destroyed and ecosystems are degraded, floods become more devastating. And when climate policies prioritize infrastructure and profit over ecological protection and people’s needs, it is communities who bear the cost.

We need climate action that protects forests and ecosystems, stops destructive projects, and puts people not corporations and corrupt interests at the center of climate policy.

01/09/2026

𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐔, 𝐍𝐋𝐌𝐑𝐂 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖!
Pansamantalang nakapagpiyansa ang Kasibu 11 sa kasong Grave Coercion at Resistance and Disobediance (paglabag sa Artikulo 151) kaninang hapon ng Setyembre 1, 2026. Marahas na inaresto ng pulisya ang 11 mga tanggol-kalikasan noong Agosto 28 matapos barikadahan ng mga residente ng Paquet sa Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya ang mga tauhan ng North Luzon Mineral Resources Corporation na pilit na nagpapasok ng krudo.

Naninindigan ang Climate Change Network for Community-based Initiatives na makatarungan ang pagbabarikada upang labanan ang dambuhalang pinsala ng pagmimina sa kalikasan. Ipinaglalaban lamang ng mga residente ng Kasibu ang kanilang karapatan sa buhay, lupa, at kabuhayan. Hindi natatapos ang kanilang pakikibaka sa pansamantalang paglaya sapagkat habang patuloy ang pandarambong at panghihimasok ng mga dayuhang korporasyon, nandiyan palagi ang mga tanggol-kalikasan kagaya ng Kasibu 11 na patuloy na maninindigan.