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Baguio eyes Environment Week in June

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BAGUIO CITY—The City Council approved on first reading a proposed ordinance institutionalizing the first week of June each year as City Environment Week.

Authored by Councilor Elaine D. Sembrano, the ordinance aims to come up with a regular and local government-sponsored and sanctioned activity “as an avenue for the promotion and information drive of the various policies, programs and projects on health and sanitation, waste management and environmental protection, including private sector initiatives on these public concerns.”

The ordinance would create committee led by the city mayor as chairman and the City General Services Officer as action officer. Committee member would include the City Environment and Parks Management Officer, City Social Welfare and Development Officer, Chairperson of the City Council Committee of Health and Sanitation, and the President of the Association of Barangay Councils.

Representative from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Trade and Industry, the academe, duly accredited non-government organizations with programs related to environment protection, and the Association of Recyclers would also join the committee.

The body would then formulate the program of activities for the weeklong City Environment Week, the requirements and guidelines for public participation, and criteria for the Search for the Most Innovative Indigenous or Locally Developed Waste management practice or technology, among others, Sembrano said. 

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It would also come up with an inventory of environment protection policies, programs and projects of the local government, including social and economic activities derived therefrom; link with the private sector, academe, entrepreneurs, environmental advocates and other stakeholders with interests on health and sanitation, waste management, environmental protection “for the furtherance of the measure.”

The group will recommend to the City Council or to the City Ecological Solid Waste Management Board, City Water Governance Council, the Clean Air Monitoring Committee, the City Mining Regulatory Board, the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, and similar bodies created by the city measures to enhance existing city policies, programs and projects.

The committee would draw at least P100,000 in funds from the city’s general fund or from the ecological solid waste management fund, the councilor added. The amount would be included in the annual budgetary allocation of the City General Services office and adjusted accordingly “to support the activities that will be lined up for the purpose.”

Activities prescribed for the weeklong event include a public forum or symposium on the government’s policies, programs and projects on health and sanitation, waste management and environmental protection, including private sector initiatives related to them; an exposition of recycled products,  technologies and best practices on waste management, environmental protection, conservation and regeneration; search for the most innovative indigenous or locally developed waste management practice or technology model recycler; and the most environmentally friendly barangay. 

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