Environmenta

l acts and
regulations
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Why there are laws for

environmental protection?
Disseminate

knowledge and urge

environment protection
Sustainability

Local environmental acts and

regulations
PhilSCA

solid waste management

Pasay city ordinance on the ban of use
of plastic bags

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

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

National environmental acts

and regulations
Republic

Act No. 8749 - Clean Air

Act of 1999
Republic Act No. 8752 - The AntiDumping Act of 1999
Republic Act No. 9003 - Ecological
Solid Waste Management Act of
2000
Republic Act No. 9147 - Wildlife
Resources Conservation and
Protection Act

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

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 theKyoto Protocol, 1997.

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 theMontreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone
Layer, Montreal 1987.

Kyoto protocol
International

agreement linked to the

united nations framework convention on
climate change

Overview map of states

committed to greenhouse gas
(GHG) limitations in the first
Kyoto Protocol period (2008
2012)

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