AIS represents JCAP in Regional Conference on Climate, Biodiversity, and Energy; contributes to drafting of the 2025 ASEAN People’s Agenda

Last 20-22 October 2025, Dr Emmanuel D Delocado, Director of Ateneo Institute of Sustainability, represented the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) in the Regional Conference on Climate, Biodiversity, and Energy held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Organized by Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED), the conference sought to bring experts and practitioners in climate change, biodiversity, energy, public policy, anthropology, and theology among others for an intimate discussion on socioecological problems that beleaguer the region. Set against the backdrop of the 2025 ASEAN Summit held in Kuala Lumpur, the conference focused on the trends and challenges of ASEAN as a socioeconomic entity, as well as the state of human-induced climate change, biodiversity loss, and renewable energy market in Southeast Asia. After the sectoral discussion, the conference used the case study of the Coral Triangle to pin down the intersectionality of the topics covered.

A key outcome of the conference was the drafting of 2025 ASEAN People’s Agenda on Climate, Biodiversity, and Energy, which was turned over to the ASEAN Secretariat. The ASEAN People’s Agenda demands that ASEAN should be on the forefront of climate, biodiversity, and energy nexus discussions as guided by integral ecology. The complete Outcomes Report can be found here, which includes key demands such as: 

WE URGE ASEAN to establish and adopt a legally binding framework for environmental rights – a commitment to a safe, clean, healthy, humane, and sustainable environment for all people across Southeast Asia in the present and in the future, embedding biodiversity protection and recovery and environmental justice. We further demand that environmental goals be made central, the need for inter-pillar integration and implementation through the frameworks of the social and economic pillars of the ASEAN framework. 

WE CALL upon all Southeast Asians to heed the urgent cry of the Earth and the poor, compelling us to safeguard the integrity of our Common Home.

On his end, Dr Delocado contributes in articulating the nuances of integral ecology as a framework and in discussing biodiversity issues. While the ASEAN People’s Agenda was submitted to the ASEAN Secretariat, the Philippine government was also furnished with a copy as it assumes ASEAN Chairship.