REVOLUTIONIZING CLIMATE EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES AND AROUND THE WORLD
The Philippines is the most climate-vulnerable country in the world. Our children are the most climate-anxious generation ever measured. And the country has no national climate curriculum. Klima is building it, by Filipinos, for Filipinos, with indigenous knowledge at the center.
THE FILIPINO YOUTH IS THE MOST CLIMATE VULNERABLE AND CLIMATE ANXIOUS POPULATION IN THE WORLD.
BUT THE PHILIPPINES DOES NOT HAVE A CLIMATE CHANGE CURRICULUM.
KLIMA IS WORKING TO CHANGE THAT.
OUR APPROACH
We see four failures in how climate education is taught in the Philippines
It is disaster-risk-management-focused, treating climate as a crisis to survive rather than a future to shape.
It is overly scientific, abstracted from the realities of the children most affected.
It is foreign, imported from English-medium curricula that erase indigenous environmental knowledge.
And it ignores climate anxiety entirely, even as Filipino children are now the most climate-anxious generation ever measured.
Klima is built to address all four. We deliver comprehensive climate education that is regionally contextualized, indigenized, taught in Filipino and regional languages, and integrated with climate emotions processing and changemaker tools.
SELECTED PARTNERS AND RECOGNITION
Selected among UNICEF's top 8 climate education organizations worldwide. Founded by Yale and MIT-trained leaders. Cambridge MSt Social Innovation (incoming). Khan Academy Philippines curriculum partner. WWF Philippines programmatic partner for Klima Kombinator. We Are Family Foundation Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leader. One Young World ASEAN featured speaker.
OUR PROJECTS
CURRICULUM. DELIVERY. POLICY.
Klima began in 2018 with a single distribution of self-learning kits to a high school in Pinukpuk, Kalinga, deep in the Cordillera mountains, where climate disasters and geographic isolation routinely lock students out of school. Co-founded by Razel Suansing and Lauren Zhou, then 16, the project began with one conviction: that the most climate-vulnerable Filipino children deserve curricula built FOR them, not adapted to them. The country's mainstream textbooks treat indigenous knowledge as folklore. Disaster pedagogy is an afterthought. And students in Cordillera, Mindanao, and the Mangyan ancestral domains of Mindoro are expected to learn from materials that erase their realities. Klima rejects that framing.
Founded as Kahon ng Karunungan and rebranded as Klima in 2026, the organization has reached 10,000+ students directly across four continents, the Philippines, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the United States. In mid-2020, during the COVID-19 education emergency, Klima co-founded the KNOW Movement, a 15-organization global coalition of youth-led education initiatives now operating across 14+ countries. Klima is now formally registered as Klima Foundation, Inc. and operates six programs across the Philippines: Klima Kards, Klima Karavan, Klima Kurriculum, Klima Kamp, Klima Kollection, and Klima Kombinator.
OUR STORY
OUR BOARD
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RAPHAEL DIAZ, CLIMATE FINANCE EXPERT AT THE YALE UNIVERSITY JACKSON SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Rap gained more than a decade of experience across the private sector, government, and non-profits. Rap helped raise US$2.5 billion to fund various transition energy projects of an energy conglomerate, including battery energy storage systems and natural gas. He also helped pioneer this conglomerate’s 1st GRI-marked sustainability report. In his time in the Philippine Department of Finance, he served as an alternate of the Secretary of Finance as chair of the boards of state-owned enterprises where he helped advance reforms to introduce renewable energy and improve governance for energy access efforts in remote areas in the Philippines.
OUR LEADERSHIP
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RAZEL SUANSING, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
RAZEL SUANSING is a senior-level political advisor and climate practitioner. She is currently the youngest Chief Political Affairs Officer in the House of Representatives and the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Klima. She has over a decade of experience in climate education and has educated an audience of over 20,000 people about the state of climate education in the Philippines. In Congress, she leads the working group for the first national inquiry on climate risk vulnerability and integrated nature-based and infrastructure solutions in the Philippines, the most climate-risk-vulnerable country in the world. She is an incoming Master's in Social Innovation Candidate at the University of Cambridge and currently an Asia-Pacific Sustainability Leadership Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science (Honors), Human Rights, and Journalism from Yale University.