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Inland Wetlands and Caves
• Effectively communicate sustainable practices and enforce biodiversity
regulations especially in priority inland wetlands and caves with high
value.

Urban Biodiversity
• Enhance green spaces in urban areas.

Expand the development of sustainable resource-based industries including forest,
fish, marine, and genetic resources. Promote and develop ecotourism and cultural
sites (See also PDP Chapter 8).

Mainstream ecosystem values into national and local development planning by
institutionalizing ecosystem valuation and natural resource monitoring system
and developing a policy for Payments for Ecosystem Services.

To improve environmental quality
• Strengthen enforcement of environmental laws especially on air, water,
and land quality management.
• Promote sustainable consumption and production such as eco-friendly
technologies, systems, and practices.

To increase adaptive capacities and resilience of ecosystems
• Strengthen the implementation of climate change adaptation and disaster
risk reduction across sectors, particularly at the local level (See also PDP
Chapter 11).
• Strengthen institutional response to disasters.
• Strengthen the monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of climate
change and disaster risk reduction and management actions.

Cross-cutting strategy
• Review, codify, and streamline existing environment and natural resources
policies, rules and regulations to improve compliance, address conflicting
provisions, and promote transparency and accountability.

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