Profiles

Imelda Bacudo provides technical advice to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its ten Member States for strengthened regional and international policies to gain wider access to climate finance, which ultimately builds resilience of the agriculture and other land use sectors to impacts of climate change.  

She has been instrumental in guiding the ASEAN Climate Resilience Network—a platform for knowledge exchange and support–to push the agriculture sector into engagement with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Under her leadership, the ASEAN CRN’s efforts through G77 and China, have contributed to the Koronivia Joint Work Action Plan, a landmark decision for agriculture of the UNFCCC. She has recently worked as Principal Advisor of the Forest and Climate Change Project under the ASEAN-German Programme on Response to Climate Change (GAP-CC) programme implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.  

Currently, she remains the guiding technical expert for the newly established ASEAN Negotiation Group for Agriculture (ANGA) which is pushing the agriculture sector of ASEAN to jointly shape climate policies of the UNFCCC that equips the region to better face impacts of climate change. As an independent consultant, she is also on assignment for the EU-supported Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), exploring how agriculture can contribute to Samoa and other Pacific Island’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. 

She has over 20 years’ experience in the areas of biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and conservation finance in the Philippines, Latin America, Uganda and Southeast Asia, working with NGOs, national governments, and international development agencies. She acquired her Master’s Degree in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science under a Fulbright Scholarship.