THE PHILIPPINES IS DROWNING IN CORRUPTION ₱1.089 Trillion ($18.9 Billion USD) of the government's climate-tagged expenditures since 2023 may have been lost to corruption, with a potential PHP 560 billion ($9.6 billion) of that in 2025 alone. Recent investigations in the Philippines have revealed a massive corruption scandal involving billions of pesos in flood control projects, which led to the resignation of the Public Works Secretary and triggered parallel inquiries in the House and Senate. Pu