Klima
The largest climate education organisation built from and for the Global South.
I founded Klima in 2018 with one conviction: that the most climate-vulnerable Filipino children deserve curricula built for them, not adapted to them. The Philippines ranks first among 193 countries on the World Risk Report. Filipino youth register, by independent global survey, as the most climate-anxious population in the world. And yet the country has no national climate curriculum. The only climate-related instruction in the national curriculum is disaster-risk management. Klima exists to change that.
What Klima is
Klima is the largest climate education organisation built from and for the Global South. It is led by Filipino youth and operates across all seventeen regions of the Philippines through a Regional Champion Network of twelve named Filipino climate practitioners, YSEALI fellows, UNICEF Youth Foresight Fellows, WWF Force of Nature awardees, Tacloban Yolanda-frontline organisers, Bangsamoro educators, Siargao marine biologists, each rooted in the region they serve. They are not Klima staff. They are the existing Filipino climate workforce, organised.
Impact to date
Klima has reached more than 16,100 people across four continents: the Philippines, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the United States. Over 10,000 through Klima's direct programming since 2018, and a further 6,100 through the KNOW Movement, the 15-organisation, 14-country coalition Klima co-founded with Atlanta-based College Pathway during the COVID-19 education emergency. Klima reports direct reach and coalition reach separately and does not aggregate them into a single headline; founder speaking-platform reach is excluded entirely.
Our Klima Ecosystem
A two-hour, self-facilitated, classroom-deployable climate literacy workshop built around a deck of regionally contextualised cards. Four sets: climate science in indigenised Tagalog, Filipino youth lived experience drawn from over 100 consultative meetings nationwide, changemaker tools, and climate-emotions processing, the first climate-emotions material ever published for Filipino learners.
Klima Karavan
Klima Kards
The regional research-and-delivery vehicle taking Klima Kards to all seventeen Philippine regions and conducting the country's first comprehensive research project on climate-education access. Its peer-reviewed journal submission is targeted for December 2026.
Klima Kurriculum
The first comprehensive sustainability curriculum authored for the Filipino classroom, in Filipino and being aligned to Department of Education learning outcomes. House Bill 9384, the Klima Kurriculum Act, was e-filed in the Philippine House of Representatives in May 2026 to embed indigenised climate education in the national curriculum.
Klima Kombinator
Klima's policy-and-incubation programme, connecting student innovators with climate practitioners and policymakers. A 90-minute advanced climate science workshop converts high-potential student leaders into community climate solution builders, with approved student grant proposals graduating into long-term mentorship. Publicly launched April 13, 2026, with WWF Philippines as lead partner.
Klima Kollection
A living archive of indigenous oral histories from the most climate-vulnerable regions of the Philippines, co-authored by the communities themselves. Klima sponsored Between Sea and Storms (Macaumbao and Boco, 2025), one of the first phenomenological studies documenting Badjao women's climate vulnerabilities in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.
Klima Kamp
A youth leadership incubator for Filipino youth, with applications opening June 2026 with Yale and MIT mentors