By 2028, UNDP aims to support a just transition toward low-carbon, climate-resilient development in the Philippines—ensuring that people and communities benefit from sustainable natural resource management, healthier ecosystems, and stronger protection against disasters and natural hazards. Our work brings together climate ambition, resilience building, nature protection, and innovative finance to help the country respond to the accelerating climate and environmental challenges of our time.

A major pillar of this outcome is NDC implementation and the just transition, where UNDP helps advance gender-responsive climate policy measures, supports the rollout of the National Plastic Action Roadmap, and contributes to sector assessments that guide mitigation and adaptation efforts. We also help expand circular economy solutions and strengthen the enabling conditions needed to attract climate investments and scale renewable energy.

We also work to strengthen local climate and disaster resilience, helping provinces build their risk-to-resilience capacities. This includes conducting risk diagnostics, integrating tools like PlanSmart, and developing resilience monitoring and evaluation dashboards. UNDP also supports local governments and communities in preparing bankable proposals and gaining access to financing through the People’s Survival Fund, official development assistance, and private-sector mechanisms.

In parallel, UNDP advances biodiversity and natural resource management through corridor and landscape approaches that protect ecosystems and the species and communities that depend on them. Our support spans protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), access-and-benefit sharing, nature-based solutions, biodiversity finance, natural capital accounting, and community-based enterprises tied to environmentally sustainable livelihoods.

Finally, we help strengthen the climate and nature finance architecture of the country. This includes supporting the development of the national Climate Finance Strategy led by the Department of Finance, the Climate Finance Lab and its dashboard, and policy instruments for a forest carbon market such as roadmaps and executive or administrative orders. We also work on TNFD capacity building and promote blended and de-risked financing instruments that can unlock larger-scale investments for climate and nature.

Together, these efforts aim to build a Philippines that is not only more resilient and environmentally secure, but also equipped to pursue climate action and ecosystem protection in a way that is just, inclusive, and sustainable.