The document outlines key environmental problems such as loss of biodiversity, water pollution, deforestation, pollution, and climate change, emphasizing their interconnectedness and impacts on the planet and human health. It discusses environmental management as a means to address these issues through strategic actions and sustainability efforts. The document concludes with individual work questions and tasks aimed at raising awareness and promoting personal responsibility toward environmental conservation.

1. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
 Environmental Problems
 Environmental Solutions
 Environmental Sustainability

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Articulate some of the environmental problems.
• Identify solutions of the problems.
• Explain how to go about ecological sustainability in relation the solution of
the problem.

3. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Environmental Management can be defined as “the management of the
interaction and impact of human activities on the natural environment”.
Environmental management tries to identify the factors that have a
stake in the conflicts that may rise between meeting the needs but
protecting the environment.
Environmental management is “a purposeful activity with the goal to
maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by
human activities.

4. TOP 5 ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
1. Loss of biodiversity
Biodiversity is the most complex and vital feature of our planet.
Biodiversity is essentially every living thing and ecosystem that makes up
the environment. From the tallest giraffe to the smallest microorganism,
everything plays an important role in the maintenance of our world.
But with the increase in global warming, pollution and deforestation,
biodiversity is in danger. Billions of species are going or have gone
extinct all over the world. Some scientists, in fact, are suggesting that we
are in the beginning of a 6th
mass extinction, posing issues for our planet
and ourselves.
Reducing our meat intake, particularly red meat, as well as making
sustainable choices can help to keep our planet running smoothly.

5. Benefits from Biodiversity
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
products, stable natural hydrological
cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate
and numerous other vital ecosystem
services depend upon the
conservation of biological diversity.
Food production relies on biodiversity
for a variety of food plants, pollination,
pest control, nutrient provision, genetic
diversity, and disease prevention and
control. Both medicinal plants and
manufactured pharmaceuticals rely on
biodiversity.

7. 2. Water
Water pollution is a huge concern for us and our env
ironment
. Not only is polluted water a huge financial strain
but is also killing both humans and marine life. With
oil spills, an abundance of plastic waste and toxic
chemicals entering our waterways, we’re damaging
the most valuable resource our planet has to offer.
By educating people on the causes and effects of
water pollution, we can work together to undo the
damage humans have caused. Laws also need to
change to make pollution tougher, consistently
across national borders.

8. 3. Deforestation
We need plants and trees to survive. They provide oxygen, food,
water and medicine for everyone, all over the globe. But
if deforestation continues at the rate it’s occurring, we won’t have
much of the valuable forestry left.
With natural wildfires, illegal logging and the mass amount of timber
being harvested for commercial use, our forests are decreasing at an
alarming rate. As well as reducing our supply of oxygen, the loss of
forests is contributing around 15% of our greenhouse gas emissions.
To help, you can buy more recycled and organic products,
limiting the amount of paper and cardboard you use.

9. 4. Pollution is one of the primary causes of
many of the other environmental concerns,
including climate change and biodiversity. All
7 key types of pollution – air, water, soil, noise,
radioactive, light and thermal – are affecting
our environment.
• All types of pollution, and environmental concerns,
are interlinked and influence one another. So, to
tackle one is to tackle them all. That’s why we need
to work together, as a community, to reduce the
impact that pollution is having on our environment.

10. 5. Climate Change
• As pointed out by a recent UN report, without
‘unprecedented changes’ in our actions and behavior, our planet will
suffer drastically from global warming in just 12 years. Greenhouse
gases are the main cause of climate change, trapping in the sun’s
heat and warming the surface of the earth.
• An increased ocean temperature is affecting the sea life and
ecosystems habituated there. The rise in global sea levels is shrinking
our land, causing mass floods and freak weather incidents across the
world. If we continue as we are, the world will suffer irreversibly.
• Saying no to driving more will reduce your carbon footprint, as will
switching off electrical items when they’re not in use. More
importantly, we need to educate the world on the effects and
severity of global warming, before it’s too late.

11. Individual work
Questions: Write questions using red ballpen and black ballpen for the answers. Use
long bond paper. Take picture and send online.
1. Give three (3) things or factors that rely on biodiversity?
2. How do a. global warming and b. deforestation put biodiversity in danger?
3. How do we damage the most valuable resource of our planet?
4. How do we undo the damage humans have caused?
5. What do we need to survive?
6. What do plants give us?
7. What causes our forest to decrease at an alarming rate?
8. What are the seven key types of pollution? How do they affect our environment?
Discuss each one.
9. What is the main cause of climate change?
10. What are the effects of a. an increased ocean temperature?
b. rise in global sea level?

12. PERFORMANCE TASK
Individual Work
1. How would you reduce your CO2 production in your everyday life? Discuss
your answer. (notebook) Take picture and submit online.
2. Make a house rule on the conservation of energy and water at home. Pose
it in an area where everyone in the house can see and read. Make a video
explaining to the members of the family the rules you made. Wear your
school uniform as you do so.
You will be graded based on the following:
1. Personality (20 points)
2. Your fluency in disseminating the rules (30 points)
3. Your convincing power while talking to them (30 points)
4. Audience participation (20 points)
THANK YOU.