Environmental Education and Information Division EMB-DENR Accomplishments

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Environmental Education and Information
DivisionEMB-DENRAccomplishments

• January-December 2006

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Highlights

• Support to Clean Air Initiatives
• Support to Solid Waste Management Initiatives
• Support to Water Quality Management Initiatives
• Support to Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management
  Initiatives
• Support to Environmental Impact Assessment
  Initiatives
• Support to Environmental Management Systems
• Support to Cross-cutting Environmental
  Management/Education concerns
• Support to Clean Development Mechanism and
  Climate Change

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Support to Clean Air Initiatives

• Conducted a one-day forum on Government
  Vehicles Fleets Compliance to Biodiesel and
  Emission Standards that was attended by 70
  participants mostly d General Services Chiefs and
  drivers of various government agencies last
  April 18, 2006 at the Aguila Hall of PAWB. North
  Ave., Quezon City
• Conducted a forum on Bantay Sunog Basura that
  was attended by 70 participants from local
  government units, civic-minded organizations,
  NGOs and academe last April 21, 2006 at the
  AQMTC, EMB, and November 22, 2006, at the
  Operations Center- DENR
• Assisted in the conduct of a two-day
  seminar-workshop on Public Awareness on Acid
  Deposition last June 6-7, 2006 at the Camelot
  Hotel

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Support to Clean Air Initiatives

• Conducted a one-day Forum on Good Practices of
  Local Government units on Clean Air Act
  Implementation last June 8, 2006 at the EMB
  AQMTC, before about 70 representatives of LGUs in
  Metro Manila airshed
• Conducted a half-day Forum on Preventive Vehicle
  Maintenance for Cleaner Air and Cost Savings last
  June 21, 2006, before 50 official drivers, and
  carriers of vehicles among EMB employees
• Released the published version of the National
  Air Quality Status Report 2003-2004

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Support to Clean Air Initiatives
Philippine Association of Tertiary Level
Educational Institutions in Environmental
Protection and Management PATLEPAM RESOLUTION
NO. 1, Series of 2006 SUBJECT
RESOLUTION ADOPTING A CLEAN AIR SCHOOLS BAN ON
ENTRY OF SMOKE-BELCHING VEHICLES ON A
DESIGNATED DAY IN NOVEMBER, AND OTHER
ACTIVITIESTO HEIGHTEN BANTAY TAMBUTSO
SA ESKWELA IN SUPPORT OF THE CLEAN AIR MONTH
CELEBRATION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES WHEREAS,
every month of November of the year and
thereafter was officially declared and adopted as
a national clean air month in the Philippines
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1109 WHEREAS,
the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR,) through the Environmental
Management Bureau (EMB), the lead implementing
agency of the Clean Air Act (Republic Act No.
8749), was also tasked to spearhead and
coordinate the said month-long celebration, and
is campaigning to enlist various sectors,
including the academe in the implementation of
this program WHEREAS, the academic community,
specifically the higher education
institution-members of Philippine Association of
Tertiary Level Educational Institutions in
Environmental Protection and Management
(PATLEPAM), are being looked upon as
models/focal venues to emulate and provide
strategic complementary actions to pursue the
overall objectives of the National Clean Air
Program WHEREAS, the major education
departments, notably the Commission on Higher
Education, Department of Education, and Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority
recently endorsed nationwide, to various schools
under their jurisdiction, EMBs Bantay Tambtuso
sa Eskwela Program. RESOLVED, as it is hereby
resolved, in behalf of the Board, of
Directors/Officers of the PATLEPAM, to coincide
with the participating schools in attendance to
the 11TH National Senior Educators Assembly
Environmental Protection and Management, on the
2nd day of September 2006 in Quezon
For and in behalf of the PATLEPAM Board of
Directors DR. RUTH GUZMAN Chairperson,
PATLEPAM Board of Directors

• Coordinated preparation of first drafts of
• - Metro Manila Airshed Air Quality Status
  Report (2005)
• - National Air Quality Status Report (2005)
• Coordinated the finalization and release of a
  resolution among the association of higher
  education institutions nationwide for the
  orchestrated ban on entry of smoke belching
  vehicles among participating schools on November
  17, 2006, in support to the Clean Air Month
  celebration, including request-letters for the
  Commission on Higher Education and the Catholic
  Educators Association of the Philippines

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Support to Clean Air Initiatives

• Initiated the nationwide support for the Bantay
  Tambutso sa Eskwela program, with endorsements
  obtained from the Department of Education,
  Technical Education and Skills Development
  Authority, and the Commission on Higher Education
• Conducted the Bantay Tambutso sa Eskwela Forum
  (last November 15) cum exhibit (November 14-30,
  2006) at the Mapua Institute of Technology. The
  Forum was participated in by about 140
  participants (academic administrators, faculty
  members, and students leaders) from universities
  and colleges in Metro Manila and the nearby
  regions

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Support to Clean Air Initiatives

• Assisted and participated the Philippine Clean
  Air Act Implementation Review Workshop last
  November 24, 2006 at ADB
• Assisted and participated in the Clean Air
  Summit last November 29, 2006 at ADB
• Prepared news release on DENR Steers Bantay
  Tambutso sa Eskwela, which saw print at Manila
  Times (November 18, 2006), and Philippine Daily
  Inquirer (November 17, 2006), Philippine Star
  (November 26, 2006) and uploading at DENR website
  (beginning November 16, 2006 and the EMB website
  within November 2006

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Support to Clean Air Initiatives

• Coordinated the production with DMITRI
  production, of four 30-seconder televisions plugs
  on Lets Care for our Air, particularly on 1)
  Christian Bautista on Stop the Burning of
  Wastes 2) Heart Evangelista on Quit Smoking
  3) Lou Bonnevie on Take Alternative Modes of
  Transport 4) Australian Youth Ambassadors and
  other youth volunteers on Global Campaign
• Coordinated the airing on Studio 23, Channels 13
  and 25 of the Lets Care for our Air television
  plugs.

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Support to Solid Waste Management Initiatives

• Assisted and participated in the meetings for the
  Solid Waste Reduction Master Plan (SWARM)
  workshop last February 1, 2006 and April 24, 2006
  at the Miriam College
• Assisted and participated to the selection and
  awarding of model schools for the SWARM project
  last February 20, 2006 at the Dep-Ed NCR
• Finalization, publication and dissemination of
  two SWARMPlan Newsletters to different regional
  stakeholders

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Support to Solid Waste Management Initiatives

• Prepared hand-out on Bantay Sunog Basura , which
  was distributed in several fora, and uploaded at
  the EMB and DENR websites since May 2006 to date
• Edited and prepared lay-out for the Linis Estero
  flyer.
• Initiated the discussions towards the Balik
  Supot, Bawas Balot, Bawas Basura campaign last
  September 2006, among member-supermarkets of the
  Philippine Association of Supermarkets, Inc.

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Support to Solid Waste Management Initiatives

• Supported and participated in the UNDP-assisted
  Community-based Ecological Solid Waste Management
  Project
• Spearheaded community and house-to-house surveys,
  and information campaign on Solid Waste
  Management to Barangays, in Roxas District,
  Quezon City in line with the International Clean
  up celebrations
• Assisted the television productions in Solid
  Waste Management, and Pagsugpo ng Polusyon
  Usapang Hangin , Tubig at Basura last September
  3 and 24, 2006 respectively, at Channels 4 Tinig
  ng Bayan
• Conducted on-the-spot contest on waste reuse and
  recycling for persons with disabilities at the SM
  San Lazaro last July 21, 2006.

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Support to Water Quality Management Initiatives

• Participated in the JICA-assisted Project on the
  Information and Education Group that prepared the
  National and Regional Water Quality Status
  Reports for Regions 3, 6 and 12
• Participated the Technical Working Group meetings
  on the preparation of a water and sanitation
  module for students initiated by Plan Philippines

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Support to Water Quality Management Initiatives

• Conducted the 11th National Senior Educators
  Assembly in Environmental Protection and
  Management last September 28-29, 2006 at the
  Hotel Supreme, Baguio City with the theme Water
  Resources Management Trends, Problems and
  Prospects and attended by 110 senior academic
  administrators nationwide.
• Prepared the EMBs 2007 calendar with the theme
  Our World, Our Water.

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Support to Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management
Initiatives

• Participated and assisted in the launching of
  the National Implementation Plan of the for the
  Elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants last
  October 15, 2006 at the Operations Center , 2nd
  Floor, DENR

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Support to Environmental Impact Assessment
Initiatives

• Assisted in the conduct of the three-day
  Training-Workshop on Enhancing the Performance of
  Environmental Monitoring and Audit Role of
  Multipartite Monitoring Teams last November 8-10,
  2006 that was attended by about 50 participants
  from different multipartite monitoring teams in
  the country at the University Hotel in UP
  Diliman, Quezon City.
• Facilitated the release with the Philippine
  Information Agency of a 15-seconder video
  documentary on the Philippine Environmental
  Impact Assessment System.

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Support to Environmental Management Systems

• Conducted a series of seminars on the EMBs
  Environmental Management Systems (EMS) for
• - selected EMB employees
• - EMB janitors and security guards
• - EMB drivers, and carriers of vehicles

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Support to Cross-cutting Environmental
Management/Education concerns of EMB

• Assisted the implementation of a work program for
  an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development
  (AYAD) who was be housed at the EEID for nine
  months beginning April 2006.
• Participated and provided inputs to the meeting
  on The Access Initiative (access to information,
  decision-making and justice) held last April 26,
  2006 in Bangkok, Thailand.
• Conducted a series of meeting-workshops of the
  network of tertiary level educational
  institutions.

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Support to Cross-cutting Environmental
Management/Education concerns of EMB

• Participated and provided inputs to the three-day
  writeshop on IEC materials last February 15-17,
  2006 at PAWB, Quezon City.
• Initiated series of Gender and Development
  activities last March 2006.

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Support to Cross-cutting Environmental
Management/Education concerns of EMB

• Conducted a two-day Forum on Accelerating
  Environmental Education Towards Sustainable
  Development Taking up the Challenges last July
  4-5, 2006 at the University Hotel at UP Diliman.
• Conducted a two-day workshop on Results-based
  Monitoring and Evaluation last July 10-11, 2006
  at the Sulo Hotel for the UNDP-assisted Capacity
  2015 project.
• Assisted the participation of EMB to the Green
  Philippines Highway project of the DENR last
  August 2006

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Support to Cross-cutting Environmental
Management/Education concerns of EMB

• Conducted a Training on Enhancing Communication
  of Environmental Laws and Concerns for EMB
  Regional Environmental Education and Information
  Officers on October 26-27, 2006 at the Oasis
  Hotel in Angeles, Pampanga.
• Finalized and published the tertiary level
  educational institutions newsletter

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Support to Cross-cutting Environmental
Management/Education concerns of EMB

• Participated in the Technical Working Group
  meetings of the DENRs Task Force Curriculum
• Moderated the PCSD Sub-Committee on Information
  and Education Working Group of the Philippine
  Virtual Plenary Network
• Continuously conducted lectures on various
  environmental issues and concerns, including for
  Consumer-
• net organizations

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Support to Clean Development Mechanism and
Climate Change

• Organized a forum on Climate Change that was
  attended by 60 participants from different
  sectors last April 20, 2006 at the AQMTC, EMB,
  Quezon City, and other capacity-bldg activities
  on Clean Development Mechanism
• Coordinated the conduct of exhibit on Climate
  Change from April 20-30, 2006 at the DENR Lobby

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THANK YOU!