NATIONAL PROGRAMS

ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Presented by:
ALBERT A. MAGALANG
Chief, Climate Change Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
OUTLINE
Transition from MDG to Sustainable Development Goals
Introducing SDG Opportunities
Defining Sustainable Environment
Ongoing Initiatives/Proposed Plans of Actions
Role/s of DENR
 TRANSITION FROM MDG TO SDG
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that preceded the SDGs, were strong on monitoring and tracking,
but did not build in an evaluation function.
The MDGs established measurable, universally-agreed objectives for eradicating extreme poverty and hunger,
preventing deadly but treatable disease, and expanding educational opportunities to all children, among other
development imperatives.
The MDGs drove progress in several important areas:
Income poverty
Access to improved sources of water
Primary school enrollment
Child mortality
With the job unfinished for millions of peoplewe need to go the last mile on ending hunger, achieving full
gender equality, improving health services and getting every child into school. Now we must shift the world onto
a sustainable path. The SDGs aim to do just that, with 2030 as the target date.
This new development agenda applies to all countries, promotes peaceful and inclusive societies, creates better
jobs and tackles the environmental challenges of our timeparticularly climate change. In December 2015,
world leaders reached a historic global agreement on climate change at the Paris Climate Conference.
The Sustainable Development Goals must finish the job that the Millennium Development Goals started, and
leave no one behind.
 Introducing SDG Opportunities
The concept of the SDGs was born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development, Rio+20, in 2012. The objective was to produce a set of universally applicable
goals that balances the three dimensions of sustainable development: environmental, social,
and economic.
The Sustainable Development Goals refer to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development adopted by the 193-Member United Nations General Assembly at the
Sustainable Development Summit held in New York on 2527 September 2015. They
include 17 goals and 169 targets with 230 global indicators.
The Sustainable Development Goals succeed the Millennium Development Goals, which
end in December 2015. The new agenda serves as a launch pad for renewed cooperation
over the next 15 years to end poverty in all its forms, promote shared prosperity, and
support sustainable development for everyone.
So 192 states have committed to having a national evaluation system in their countries. This
puts evaluation front and centre, as the agent of change for the world we seek.
The strategies will be mainstreamed in the next medium-term development plan, the Public
Investment Program, and the yearly Budget Priorities Framework, and will be further elaborated
in the various subnational and sectoral development plans
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 1: No poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2: Zero hunger

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote
sustainable agriculture

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 4: Quality education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all

Goal 5: Gender equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all

Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and
productive employment, and decent work for all
Goal 9: Industry, innovation, infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable
industrialization, and foster innovation

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable

Goal 12: Responsible consumption, production

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 13: Climate action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 14: Life below water

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for
sustainable development
Goal 15: Life on land
Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,
sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land
degradation, and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide
access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive
institutions at all levels
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership
for sustainable development
 Defining
Sustainable Environment
THE THREE PILLARS OF SUSTAINABILITY
The definition of sustainability is the study of how natural systems function, remain
diverse and produce everything it needs for the ecology to remain in balance. It also
acknowledges that human civilisation takes resources to sustain our modern way of
life.

http://www.epa.gov/sustainability/basicinfo.htm

The three pillars of sustainability are a powerful tool for

defining the complete sustainability problem.
This consists of at least the economic, social, and
environmental pillars. If any one pillar is weak then the
system as a whole is unsustainable.
Sustainable Environment

A state in which the demands placed on the environment can be

met without reducing its capacity to allow all people to live well,
now and in the future.

Definition from Financial Times Lexicon

Ongoing Initiatives/
Plans of Action
Guiding Principle 2.2 To build the adaptive capacity of communities and increase the resilience of natural ecosystems to climate change,
and optimize mitigation opportunities towards sustainable development;

Guiding Principle 2.3 The Philippines, as a State Party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is
committed to its core principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.

Guiding Principle 2.7 The national priorities, and therefore, the pillars, of the NFSCC Framework Strategy on Climate Change shall be
adaptation and mitigation, with an emphasis on adaptation as the anchor strategy. Whenever applicable, mitigation
actions shall also be pursued as a function of adaptation;

Guiding Principle 2.10 The Framework adopts the Philippine Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development, to fulfill human needs while
maintaining the quality of the natural environment for current and future generations;

Guiding Principle 2.11 The principle of complementation shall be observed to ensure that climate change initiatives by one sector do not
restrict the adaptation of other sectors;
Guiding Principle 2.12 The Framework recognizes the roles of agencies and their respective mandates as provided by law. The Framework
also recognizes the principle of subsidiarity and the role of local governments as front-liners in addressing climate
change;
Guiding Principle 2.13 The Framework recognizes the value of forming multi-stakeholder participation and partnerships in climate change
initiatives, including partnerships with civil society, the private sector and local governments, and especially with
indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups most vulnerable to climate change impacts; and

Guiding Principle 2.14 Policy and incentive mechanisms to facilitate private sector participation in addressing adaptation and mitigation
objectives shall be promoted and supported.
 National Climate Change Action Plan
(2011 2028)
Goal:
To build the adaptive capacities of women and men in
their communities, increase the resilience of vulnerable
sectors and natural ecosystems to climate change, and
Intermediate optimize mitigation opportunities towards a gender-
responsive and rights-based sustainable development
Outcomes

Enhanced adaptive capacity Successful

climate-smart to
of communities, resilience of transition emphasize
natural ecosystems, and towards the need for
sustainability of built
climate-smart adaptive
environment to climate mitigation
change. development.
Ultimate Outcomes
 Integrating SD in the INDC Development Process
WHAT ARE INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions)?
Importance
of INDCs
 Integrating SD in the INDC Development Process
MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS : DESCRIBES ANY STRUCTURED APPROACH USED TO
DETERMINE OVERALL PREFERENCES AMONG ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS

Decision-making tool

Used to identify a single most preferred option

Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

To rank options based on Criteria identified

To short-list a limited number of options for subsequent detailed appraisal

Simply distinguish acceptable from unacceptable possibilities

100 %

100 %
NDC vis Other International Commitments

INDC Sendai
CVF Framework
V20
Strategies and
Targets
17 SDGs
CONNECTING CLIMATE
ACTIONS TO SDGS
INDCs in SDGs
2030 SDGs and Targets

Requires balancing act between
meeting electricity needs and
protecting the environment.
To be able to achieve this goal, most
developing countries would need
significant support on clean energy
research; investments on renewable
energy and clean energy technology
development; as well the required
infrastructure for these technologies.
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PDP 2011-2016
ONGOING EFFORTS
Promotion of Renewable Energy,
pursuant to the Renewable Energy
Act (9513):
- Keeping renewable energy
share at no less than 30
percent mix of total energy
mix (DOE Circular 2015-07-
0014);
Ensuring sustainable renewable
energy resource management(EO
No. 206 s. 2016), and
Development of a Policy on Coal-
Fired Power Plants (Climate
Change Commission Resolution
2016-001)

Create good, affordable public
housing, upgrade slum settlements,
invest in public transport, create green
spaces and get broader range of
people involved in urban planning
decisions.
Strengthen national and regional
development planning and increase
number of cities adopting plans and
policies towards CC adaptation,
mitigation and disaster resilient.
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PDP 2011-2016
ONGOING EFFORTS
Launching of the Green
Building Code
Mainstreaming CCA and
DRRM in national and local
plans
- Supplemental Guidelines for
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk
Assessment and Climate Change
Vulnerability Assessment in the
Provincial Development and
Physical Framework Plan (PDPFP);
and
- Supplemental Guidelines for
Mainstreaming Climate Change
Adaptation and Disaster Risk
Reduction in the Comprehensive
Land Use Plan (CLUP)

Sustainable management and
efficient use of natural resources
Reducing waste through adopting
sustainable practice to minimize the
adverse impacts to human health and
environment.
Strengthen scientific and
technological capacity to move
towards more sustainable patterns of
consumption and production
PDP 2011-2016
ONGOING EFFORTS
1305 LGUs with approved SWM
Plan and 9335 MRF established
servicing 12607 barangays
nationwide
Enactment of the Green Jobs Act
Institutionalization of GHG
Inventory (EO 174)
National Appropriate Mitigation
Actions (NAMAS) and Low
Emission Development Strategies
(LEDS) for the Philippines
 PDP 2011-2016
ONGOING EFFORTS

National Framework Strategy on

Climate Change,2010-2022 and
National Climate Change Action Plan,
2011-2028, as provided for under the
Climate Change Act (RA 9729)

National Disaster Risk Reduction

Aims to strengthen resilience Management Plan, 2011-2028, as
and adaptive capacity through provided for under the DRRM Act
integration of climate change
Provision of CC and DRRM data,
into development planning,
vulnerability assessment (VA) tools and
improving IEC and human methodology and installation of
capacity and mobilizing automatic weather stations (AWS) and
resources for climate change early warning system
adaptation and mitigation.
Completion of geological hazard maps
(1:50,000 and 1:10,000)

Aims to strengthen resilience
and adaptive capacity through
integration of climate change
into development planning,
improving IEC and human
capacity and mobilizing
resources for climate change
mitigation and climate change
adaptation.
PDP 2011-2016
ONGOING EFFORTS
Allocation of financial resources for
climate change and disaster risk
reduction and management, through
the People Survival Fund (RA 10174)
and Disaster Risk Reduction
Management Fund (RA 10121)
Tracking of government spending on
climate change through climate
expenditures tagging
Rehabilitation and recovery efforts
(e.g., Yolanda Recovery and
Reconstruction Plan)
Implementation of capacity building
programs on CCA/M (e.g., NGP)
 National Greening Program
The National Greening Program (NGP) is a massive forest rehabilitation program of the government
established by virtue of Executive Order No. 26 issued on Feb. 24, 2011 by President Benigno S. Aquino III.
It seeks to grow 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares nationwide within a period of six years, from 2011 to
2016.
Aside from being a reforestation initiative, the NGP is also seen as a climate change mitigation strategy as it
seeks to enhance the countrys forest stock to absorb carbon dioxide, which is largely blamed for global
warming. It is also designed to reduce poverty, providing alternative livelihood activities for marginalized
upland and lowland households relating to seedling production and care and maintenance of newly-planted
trees.
As a convergence initiative among the Departments of Agriculture, Agrarian Reform and DENR, half of the
targeted trees to be planted under the program would constitute forest tree species intended for timber
production and protection as well. The other 50% would comprised of agroforestry species.
Areas eligible for rehabilitation under the program include all lands of the public domain. Spefically, these
include forestlands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservation, urban
greening areas, inactive and abandoned mine sites and other suitable lands.
Medium Term Plan on Short-Lived Climate
Pollutants (SLCP) Reduction (2016-2021)
The mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP) such as methane, black carbon,
tropospheric ozone and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) is part of the overarching climate
goal of the country.
Objectives:
Enhance national capacity to take action on prioritized measures to mitigate SLCPs
Develop national action plan for SLCP reduction in the Philippines
Leverage finance to support SLCP mitigation programs and initiatives in the country
Enhance awareness and promote SLCP mitigation in the Asia Pacific region
 EbA in the
Examples:
Goal 13 Climate Action
13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-
related hazards and natural disasters in all countries ;
Goal 15 Life on Land: esp.
15.1 By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and
sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater
ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands,
mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under
international agreements
15.9 By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values
into national and local planning, development processes, poverty
reduction strategies and account
EbA in SDGs
Examples:
Goal 14 Life below Water: esp.
14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and
coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts,
including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for
their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
Goal 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities: esp.
11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and
human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies
and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and
adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and
develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk
management at all levels
 EbA in SDGs

Examples:
Goal 6 - Clean water and sanitation: esp.
11.b By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems,
including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes

Goal 2 Zero Hunger:

2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and
implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity
and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen
capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought,
flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and
soil quality
EbA in the Paris Agreement
(Article 7 Adaptation)
2. () adaptation is a key component () to protect people,
livelihoods and ecosystems ()
5. () adaptation actions should follow a country driven, gender
responsive, participatory and fully transparent approach taking into
consideration vulnerable groups, communities and ecosystems
()
9. Each party shall () engage in adaptation planning and ()
implementation () which may include ()
(c) The assessment of climate change impacts and vulnerability
() taking into account vulnerable people, places and
ecosystems;
(e) Building the resilience of socioeconomic and ecological
systems, incl. through economic diversification and
sustainable management of natural resources
 ROLES of the KEY SECTORS
NEDA proposes to meet the SDGs, we may need legislation:
o centralized coordinating and reporting mechanism to be in place for both the long-term vision and
the SDGs
o For monitoring SDGs, focusing on addressing issues on data availability and disaggregation,
definition, measurement method and accountability mechanism
important to involve the legislative branch, since some action may require legislation and the local
government units, given our devolved governance structure
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Board approved a resolution enjoining government agencies at
the national and subnational/local levels to provide the necessary data support to monitor the
countrys performance on the SDGs
academe and research community to come up with methodologies for cost-effective monitoring
systems for the SDGs
development partners to increase support for strengthening data collection and capacity-building
institutions and government departments should integrate the evaluation of the SDGs, in all policies
international support to help build the capacity of governments to mobilize and share knowledge,
expertise, and technology and financial resources.
 THANK YOU
Albert A. MAGALANG
Chief, Climate Change Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Tel: 920 2251 / 0917 634 4418
Email: albertmgg@yahoo.com