This document outlines various local, national, and international environmental acts and regulations. At the local level, it discusses laws in the Philippines regarding solid waste management and plastic bag bans. It then lists numerous Philippine presidential decrees and national laws addressing issues like waste, water, forestry, sanitation, pollution, and wildlife conservation. Finally, it examines international agreements for transboundary air pollution, ozone layer protection, and greenhouse gas limitations under the Kyoto Protocol.
2. Why there are laws for
environmental protection?
Disseminate knowledge and urge
environment protection
Sustainability
3. Local environmental acts and
regulations
PhilSCA solid waste management
Pasay city ordinance on the ban of use of
plastic bags
4. National environmental acts
and regulations
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act
of 2000
Presidential Decree No. 1067 - The Water
Code of the Philippines
Presidential Decree No. 1152 - Philippine
Environment Code
Presidential Decree No. 705 - Revised
Forestry Code of the Philippines
5. National environmental acts
and regulations
Presidential Decree No. 856 - Code on
Sanitation of the Philippines
Presidential Decree No. 979 - Marine
Pollution Decree of 1976
Republic Act No. 6969 - Toxic Substances
and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes
Control Act of 1990
6. National environmental acts
and regulations
Republic Act No. 8749 - Clean Air Act of
1999
Republic Act No. 8752 - The Anti-Dumping
Act of 1999
Republic Act No. 9003 - Ecological Solid
Waste Management Act of 2000
Republic Act No. 9147 - Wildlife Resources
Conservation and Protection Act
7. National environmental acts
and regulations
Republic Act No. 9275 - Clean Water Act
Republic Act No. 9512 - Environmental
Awareness Act
Republic Act No. 9514 - Revised Fire Code
of the Philippines of 2008
The Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998
8. International environmental
acts and regulations
Convention on Long-Range Transboundary
Air Pollution (LRTAP), Geneva, 1979.
Environmental Protection: Aircraft Engine
Emissions, Annex 16, vol. 2 to the 1944
Chicago Convention on Civil Aviation,
Montreal, 1981.
Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC), New York, 1992, including
the Kyoto Protocol, 1997.
9. International environmental
acts and regulations
Georgia Basin-Puget Sound International
Airshed Strategy, Vancouver, Statement
of Intent, 2002.
Vienna Convention for the Protection of
the Ozone Layer, Vienna, 1985, including
the Montreal Protocol on Substances that
Deplete the Ozone Layer, Montreal 1987.
11. Overview map of states
committed to greenhouse gas
(GHG) limitations in the first Kyoto
Protocol period (2008–2012)
12. Dark grey = Annex I Parties who have agreed to
reduce their GHG emissions below their individual
base year levels (see definition in this article)
Grey = Annex I Parties who have agreed to cap
their GHG emissions at their base year levels
Pale grey = Non-Annex I Parties who are not
obligated by caps or Annex I Parties with an
emissions cap that allows their emissions to
expand above their base year levels or countries
that have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol
