Angela Consuelo Ibay | Head, Climate Change and Energy Programme
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - Philippines

With over twenty-five years of experience working on climate change, energy, and environmental issues, Atty Ibay presently heads the Climate Change and Energy Programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines and concurrently serves as Earth Hour Philippines’ National Director, working for the organization for the past fourteen years on renewable energy and the clean energy transition, sustainable cities, and climate resilience. She chaired the National Renewable Energy Board’s sub-committee on Public Relations and IEC for five years. Last March 2022, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Climate Action Network (CAN) International, the world’s largest climate network made up of over 1,900 civil society organizations in over 130 countries, driving collective and sustainable action to fight the climate crisis and to achieve social justice. She is serving her 2nd term on the CAN International Board and was re-elected Co-Chair last March 2025. Her expertise includes environmental law and policy, climate change policy, climate finance, just transition, and renewable energy legislation and policy. The first Climate Change Attaché of the British Embassy Manila, she also worked at the Manila Observatory, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Environmental Management Bureau. She served as legal counsel for the Pollution Adjudication Board and Mines Adjudication Board. She has peer-reviewed co-written papers on environmental issues. She has been a Philippine delegation member to the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP), having attended COP3, COP9, COP16, COP21 AND COP22. In COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, COP28 in Dubai, UAE, and COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Atty. Ibay served as a Technical Adviser to the Philippine delegation on climate finance, mitigation, loss and damage, and just transition. Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law, Atty. Ibay has received training from the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., and the Renewables Academy (RENAC), Berlin, Germany.