This document summarizes workshops to update members of the Regional Advisory Council (RAC) on the Regional Environment Agenda (REA) and National Environment Agenda (NEA) in the Philippines. It identifies priority environmental issues in the Luzon region such as unsustainable agriculture and mining. The RAC agreed the NEA should include solutions in addition to issues and use consistent language. A second workshop will clarify the RAC's role in governance and planning processes, with questions on new roles and strategies to carry them out.

1. RAC Workshops:
W1-A: FPE REA & NEA (by region)
W1-B: RAC & FPE Governance
(RAC plenary)

2. FPE’s National Environment Agenda
1. Mining
2. Logging
3. Unsustainable Farming &
Agriculture
4. Renewable Energy
5. Pollution, solid waste and air
pollution
6. Climate change and disaster
risk reduction
7. Urbanization and conversion of
agricultural lands

3. Luzon Regional Environment Agenda
LUZON REA
1. Mining
2. Logging
3. Development of a new
biodiversity
monitoring system
4. Land use management
5. Unsustainable
agriculture
6. Unsustainable coastal
resource
management
7. Enforcement of ECC
8. Ancestral Domain
Claims
9. Eco-waste management
REVISED LUZON REA
1. Mining
2. Unsustainable agriculture,
forest, coastal/marine
resource use and practices
3. Land conversion of prime
ecosystems/agricultural/ma
ngroves/coastal areas
4. High-risk and high-impact
infrastructure (dams, roads,
etc)
5. Disempowered
communities and grass-root
organizations and limited
opportunities in
environmental governance

4. Workshop 1A: To update members of the
RAC on the REA and affirm the NEA
Luzon RAC Agreements/Recommendations
1. Identified priority problems in Luzon:
a. high risk, high-impact infrastructures (megadams, roads,
etc);
b. disempowered communities and grassroot
organizations and limited opportunities in environmental
governance;
c. privatization of islets

5. Workshop 1A: To update members of the
RAC on the REA and affirm the NEA
Luzon RAC Agreements/Recommendations
2. The NEA should have additional section to cover
solutions (which is the agenda) in addition to the current
phrasing as environmental issues
3. Enhance consistency of language used (current issues
all problems but renewable energy is a solution)
4. Include objectives, timeframe, and definition of terms in
the NEA

6. Workshop 1B: To clarify the
role of RAC in FPE
Governance and in PDME
processes
Note: This will be done in plenary. Each
RAC can answer the questions and these
will be collated/summarized in a matrix

7. Workshop 1B: Guide Question
1. Knowing the
traditional roles of the
RAC, what are the
new/emerging roles that
you want to assume
based on current needs
and realities?

8. Workshop 1B: Guide Question
2. How do you envision
to carry out these new
roles and
responsibilities? Define
the strategies and
mechanisms to do
these.

9. Workshop 1B: Matrix
New/Emerging Roles Strategies & Mechanisms

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