Philippines
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| Philippines | |
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| Population (In Millions) | 93.26 |
| Human Development Index | 112/169 |
| Gross Domestic Product (In USD Billions - World Bank) | 199.59 |
| Global Peace Index | 136/153 |
| Happy Planet Index | 14/143 |
| Social Institutions and Gender Index | 12/86 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 50/163 |
| Child Mortality Rate | 23.2 |
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Main Progress Initiatives
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Philippine Business for the Environment
The Philippine Business for the Environment (PBE) regroups business executives and companies, committed to environmental and economic sustainability. Its self-professed goal is to spread knowledge and best practices across businesses and create synergies between the efforts of companies; and linking business communities, local governments and other stakeholders to achieve mutual environmental goals.
Among its programs is the Industrial Waste Program and the Information Center for Clean Technology and Environmental Management (CTEM).
Philippines Business Agenda 21
Business Agenda 21 or BA21 was completed and released in May 2000. It reflects the business sector’s response to Philippine Agenda 21 which provides the broad vision and implementing strategies and parameters for sustainable development in the country. BA21 is a consolidated plan specifically developed by the business sector consistent with and in support of Philippine Agenda 21.
Philippines Council for Sustainable Development
The Philippines Council for Sustainable Development, was established in 1992 by President Ferdinand Marcos, to supervise the enforcement of Philippines's Commitments at Rio Summit on Sustainable development of 1992. Philippines became the first Asian country to establish a multi-stakeholder organisation of this kind.The PCSD was structured along the concept of coequal parts: the government and the civil society counterpart. Practically all sectors of society and
stakeholders of SD are represented among the members of PCSD.
Integrated Economic-Environmental and Natural Resources Accounting (PEENRA)
The PEENRA is a tool and a framework in resource management which recognizes the productive role of environment and natural resources in economic systems. It is aimed at incorporating the depletion of natural resources and the deterioration of the general environment in the national income accounting process through adjustments and corrections made on measures such as gross national product (GNP) to reflect the real levels of economic welfare (Environmentally-adjusted Net Domestic Product).
Center for Alternate Development Initiatives
The Center for Alternate Development Initiatives (CADI) is a Philippine-based civil society organization (CSO) dedicated to the study, encouragement and implementation of sustainable development through threefolding, partnerships. CADI, in its pursuit of sustainable development, provides research, education, training, networking and consultations in many areas of the newly emerged second and more holistic scientific revolution.
Official Statistics
Multidimensional Poverty Index
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for Philippines is 0.064. The MPI is an international measure of acute poverty covering 109 countries. The MPI reflects the multiple deprivations that poor people face at the same time in three dimensions: health, education and living standards. The MPI reflects both the incidence or headcount ratio (H) of poverty – the proportion of the population that is multidimensionally poor – and the average intensity (A) of their poverty – the average proportion of indicators in which poor people are deprived. More information on the MPI in Philippines is available here.
Happiness in Philippines
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in Philippines.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on Philippines [1]. This report is ordered by type of happiness questions and within these types by year. This ordering is to facilitate the assessment of progress, comparison over time being most fruitful using the same questions.
The report presents means and standard deviations, both on the original scale range and transformed to a common range 0-10. The means inform about the level of happiness in the country and the standard deviations about inequality of happiness.
Links provide more detail about the precise text of the question, the full distribution of responses and technical details of the survey. The report is continuously updated.
Progress Papers and Publications
Policy Uses of the Philippine System of Economic Environmental Accounts (PSEEA), 2000, Glenn-Marie Lange, Philippine Economic-Environmental and Natural Resources Accounting Inter-Agency Committee, National Statistical Coordina, Philippines. All economies are heavily dependent on the environment as a source of materials and energy, as a sink for waste products, and as the physical habitat for human communities. This capacity of the environment constitutes our "natural" capital, which needs to be maintained intact, if not augmented, for sustainable development. Nevertheless, the state of this essential asset is rarely measured or monitored and often compromised for economic growth. Over the past decade, many countries have begun to seek environmentally sustainable strategies for development. Few people would dispute the importance of integrating environmental concerns into economic thinking. The question is, how can this be done in practical, operational terms? One approach to operationalize sustainable development has been to incorporate aspects of sustainability into the system of national accounts (SNA) through the system of integrated environmental and economic accounts, or SEEA (United Nations, 1993).
