Imelda Abano is Editor st Philippine EnviroNews and Content Coordinator of Internews’ Earth Journalism Network for Philippines-Pacific Region. She is an award-winning environment journalist based in the Philippines. She manages the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network activities in the Philippines and the Pacific Islands. She is also the founding President of the Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists. Abano received the Asia Developmental Journalists of the Year award in 2009, and was honoured in 2017 and 2018 by former President Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project as the Media Climate Change Champion.