DENR-EMB Caraga to craft environmental awareness
roadmap
By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY, August 19 (PIA) – The Caraga
Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and
Natural Resources (DENR) is set to formulate an environmental awareness roadmap
for the region.
During the DENR Caraga Environmental Education
Committee meeting on August 16, Eric Herson Gallego, DENR Caraga chief of
Regional Public Affairs Office bared that there is a need for the region to
draft a roadmap in order to increase the awareness of the schools and general
public in terms of environmental concerns.
“The
committee together with the relevant government stakeholders as stipulated in
DENR Special Order No. 2011-716 have to discuss the proposed programs of the
region in support to Republic Act 9512 or Environmental Awareness and Education
Act of 2008 and tackle the region’s commitment actions to the National
Environmental Action Plan for this year which primarily promote environmental
awareness,” Gallego said.
The DENR Special Order 2011-716 reconstitute the
DENR Environmental Education Committee to ensure a continuing integration and
implementation of environmental awareness and education program in all levels
of school curricula and capacity building program. It also stipulates the
committee's function to promote environmental awareness in cooperation with the
Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education, Technical Education
and Skills Development Authority, Department of Science and Technology,
Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of the Interior and
Local Government and other concerned agencies.
Gallego said that the representatives from
concerned government and academic institutions in the region are expected to
contribute to the National Environmental Action Plan 2014-2018 by submitting
their agency's input to the regional Proposed Action Commitment to the National
Environmental Education Action Plan: A Roadmap for the Implementation of RA9512
for 2014-2018. (JSN/PIA-Caraga)
