Registration, refreshments and networking time

AlterCOP30 Philippines Welcome Remarks & Embodiment Exercise. Introduction to AlterCOP and what to expect. Introduction to Day 2 theme: Nourishing People and Planet


Day 2 explores how culture, food systems, and ecosystems shape pathways to regenerative futures. The morning session on Sustainable Gastronomy highlights the intersection of heritage, nutrition, agroecology, and policy in creating climate-smart and culturally rooted food systems. The afternoon session on Ridge-to-Reef emphasizes holistic ecosystem approaches, connecting uplands, coasts, and communities through permaculture, eco-tourism, urban planning, and grassroots mobilization. Together, the day illustrates how livelihoods, landscapes, and local knowledge can drive climate resilience and sustainability.

This session introduces the global climate negotiations under the UNFCCC, situating COP30 in Belém, Brazil, within the context of international climate action and justice. Anchored on the 2025 ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, it explores how global commitments and NDCs can translate into local action, policy innovation, and regenerative futures for the Philippines.

Delivered by Antonio “Tony” Oposa Jr., renowned environmental lawyer, advocate, and activist, this keynote unpacks the High Seas Treaty (BBNJ Agreement)—a historic global pact to protect marine biodiversity beyond national borders. Framed through a ridge-to-reef lens, it highlights the deep interconnections between upland, coastal, and ocean ecosystems and how the treaty advances ocean justice, equity, and sustainability. Oposa underscores the Philippines’ vital role as a marine biodiversity superpower, bridging global commitments with local stewardship from ridge to reef.

This session explores how food and heritage can become powerful pathways for climate resilience. By linking gastronomy with agroecology, nutrition, and policy, it highlights how cultural traditions, sustainable farming, and government programs can work together to nourish people and planet while reducing environmental impact.

The Action Triangle is a collaborative tool to overcome fragmented and accountability gaps in climate action by providing a shared responsibility framework where citizens, businesses, and government as co-actors who each commit to action while enabling one another. Participants map best practices, gaps, and opportunities, build bridges across citizens, business, and government, and commit to collaborative actions for collective impact. These commitments converge into a Knowledge Hub (sharing insights), a Network of Practice (cross-sector partnerships), and Financing Pathways (access to grants, CSR, loans, bonds, blended finance, and carbon markets).

Light snacks and refreshments provided by AlterCOP Philippines, networking time and discussions over the morning presentations. Expect intermission performances as well!

This will be a hands-on, 2-hour interactive workshop to help you navigate the climate sector and discover where your skills and aspirations fit. In this workshop, participants can explore climate and sustainability sectors from energy transition to circular economy and beyond, ​map past experiences to potential roles in this rapidly growing field, and use guided tools and reflective exercises to clarify their next career moves.

Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) are most powerful when rooted in the wisdom, agency, and participation of communities. This session explores how locally anchored initiatives—ranging from biodiversity conservation, mangrove restoration, and regenerative farming to community-led circular systems—are redefining development and resilience. It brings together practitioners and thinkers who demonstrate how NbS can drive inclusive climate adaptation, create green livelihoods, and regenerate ecosystems.

We do not inherit the future — we build it. At this strategic foresight workshop, we will resist seeing the future as a fixed destination at the end of this trajectory of history. Instead, we will freely imagine what our cities will like in 2050. Facilitated by Makesense Asia, this workshop will invite participants to imagine and design optimistic and pessimistic visions, considering political and environmental forces like climate risks, political participation, economic development, and civic engagement. Then, participants will go through a process of backcasting to plan how to reach a preferred future. A creative exercise and an invitation to question status quo, this workshop is a radical exercise in reimagining the places where we live. If cities organize our social relations, then we can also design Philippine cities that are sustainable, inclusive, and ultimately emancipatory for all.

The Action Triangle is a collaborative tool to overcome fragmented and accountability gaps in climate action by providing a shared responsibility framework where citizens, businesses, and government as co-actors who each commit to action while enabling one another. Participants map best practices, gaps, and opportunities, build bridges across citizens, business, and government, and commit to collaborative actions for collective impact. These commitments converge into a Knowledge Hub (sharing insights), a Network of Practice (cross-sector partnerships), and Financing Pathways (access to grants, CSR, loans, bonds, blended finance, and carbon markets).

This fireside chat explores how Bridging Leadership can help navigate complexity through empathy, collaboration, and shared accountability. Anchored in the Bridging Leadership Framework—ownership, co-ownership, and co-creation—the session invites reflective dialogue on how leaders can bridge divides and co-create solutions for regenerative development and good governance. Through lived experiences and collective insights, participants will reflect on shifting from an ego-system to an eco-system mindset—mobilizing people and institutions toward collective impact in a rapidly changing world.

At the close of the day, participants present the outcomes of their Action Triangle exercises, highlighting collaborative solutions and commitments emerging from each session. The synthesis of these efforts contributes to the Knowledge Hub, Network of Practice, and Financing Pathways, laying the groundwork for sustained collective impact beyond AlterCOP.