Environmental Laws and Policies in the Philippines

To protect the country's water bodies from pollution from land-based sources.

• Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978

• Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

• Philippine water act of 2004

• Climate Change Act of 2009

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

To provide the promotion of environmental awareness through environmental education.

• Philippine Water Act of 2004

• Climate Change Act of 2009

• National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

To create comprehensive framework for systematically integrating the concept of climate change,in synergy with disaster risk reduction.

• Climate Change Act of 2009

• Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act o 2000

• Philippine Water Act of 2004

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

To regulate restriction or prohibited the importation, manufacture, processing,

sale, distribution, use, and disposal of chemical substances and mixtures,

unreasonable risk to human health.

• Climate Change Act of 2009

• Philippine Toxic Substances, Hazardous, and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990

• National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

To ensure proper segregation, collection, storage, treatment, and disposal of solid

waste through the formulation and adaptation of the best ecological waste

products.

• Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

• Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

• Climate Change Act of 2009

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

To acknowledge the Philippines' vulnerability to climate change and the need for

appropriate adaptation.

• Climate Change Act of 2009

• Philippine Water Act of 2004

• Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978

• Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

To facilitate the attainment and maintenance of rational and order balance

between socio-economic development and environmental protection.

• Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978

• Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

• Philippine Water Act of 2004

• National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ETS1-1

To provide advancement and facilitate research and studies on toxic chemicals.

• Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978

• Philippine Toxic Substances, Hazardous, and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990

• National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

• Climate Change Act of 2009

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

To adopt a systematic, comprehensive, and ecological solid waste management

program that shall ensure the protection of public health and the environment.

• Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

• Climate Change Act of 2009

• Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978

• Philippine Toxic Substances, Hazardous, and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

To achieve and maintain clean air that meets the National Air Quality guidelines.

• Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

• Climate Change Act of 2009

• Philippine Water Act of 2004

• Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7