AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE PHILIPPINES: Promoting a Circular Economy towards Environmental SustainabilityEnvironment and Urban Development

American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines recently issued the following announcement.

Promoting a Circular Economy towards Environmental SustainabilityEnvironment and Urban Development

When

Thursday, August 29, 2019 (08:30 - 11:30)

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Makati Diamond Residences

118 Legazpi Street, Legazpi Village

Makati City, Metro Manila

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AmCham Philippines

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The passage of RA 9003 or "The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000" has been a milestone for Philippine legislature. RA 9003 is recognized all over the world as one of the most comprehensive and systematic environmental laws that would combat looming problems on waste management.Despite that, the Philippines is still considered as one of the top contributors of plastic waste in the world. In 2016 alone, the country has produced over 14 million metric tons of waste.

The private sector, through the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (AMCHAM) recognizes the importance of environmental sustainability in achieving inclusive growth. The chamber also sustains its support to effective policies and government initiatives that would induce collaborative efforts and promote sustainable and ecological alternatives to the population.

In line with this, the Environment and Urban Development Committee of AmCham presents its first Sustainability Summit with the theme ""Promoting Circular Economy towards a World without Waste." A forum that provides a platform for both public and private, business groups, civil society groups and the academe to dialogue and discuss the existing challenges, issues and developments in the country's waste management and material recycling efforts. Moreover, it intends to build partnerships among key stakeholders in enhancing existing and future frameworks.

Speaker

Bonar Laureto (Executive Director of Philippines Business for Environment)

Bonar Laureto

Executive Director of Philippines Business for Environment

Mr. Laureto engages with the private sector to integrate Sustainability into their Businesses. He represents Philippine Businesses to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and brings back a wealth of knowledge, best practices, and sustainability tools and adapts them into the local needs. He also assists companies develop Corporate Sustainability Strategy and prepare Sustainability Reports using GRI Standards and Integrated Reports using IIRC Guidelines.

Beyond strategy, he helps business improve their sustainability performance across material topics like carbon reduction and offsets, plastic neutrality, green jobs, telecommuting, among others. He also works with government to develop enabling policies for private sector investment in reforestation, marine conservation, biodiversity, circular economy, among others.

He is a Certified Trainer of the Global Reporting Initiative on GRI Standards, and of the World Resource Institute (WRI) on GHG Protocol Corporate Standards. He conducts trainings around the Philippines and other Asian Countries.

As Environment Specialist, he provides technical assistance to World Bank, JICA, UNEP, UNDP, USAID, government agencies, and LGUs on a wide range of disciplines – such as Marine Litter and Solid Waste Management, Green Jobs, Low-Emission Development Strategy, Carbon Credit Mechanisms, Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Marine Conservation, Watershed Management/Forestry, Biodiversity, and Community-Driven Development.

Sonia Mendoza (Chairman at Mother Earth Foundation)

Sonia Mendoza

Chairman at Mother Earth Foundation

Sonia Mendoza is a B.S. Chemistry graduate and was a registered chemist up to the time she retired from work. She was awarded the Zero Waste Fellowship in 2002 and completed training on Zero Waste at the Berkeley Ecology Center in Berkeley, California, under the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) program. She is a founding member of Mother Earth Foundation and a member of GAIA since 2002. She was the NGO Commissioner at the National Solid Waste Management Commission in 2001 - 2005. She was President and Chairman of the Mapúa Institute of Technology Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Alumni Association in 2016 and 2017, respectively. She was given The Outstanding Mapúan (TOM)Award in the Special Field of Endeavor in Community Service in 2018.

Mother Earth Foundation (MEF) is a non-stock, non-profit NGO (Non-government Organization) actively engaged in addressing waste and toxic pollution, climate change, and other health and environmental justice issues. It is also best known for its community-based advocacy of zero waste.

She is a member of the Board of Trustees of GAIA Philippines, the EcoWaste Coalition, Philippines, the Board of Directors of the Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) and a core member of the Break Free From Plastic Movement (BFFP). She serves as a resource person on Ecological Solid Waste Management/Zero Waste to local government units, schools, business offices, church organizations, civic organizations and in congressional hearings on solid waste management and environment concerns.

She has assisted different communities in their waste management programs and actively campaigns for ecological waste management to local government units, schools, business establishments, emphasizing waste reduction, change in lifestyle, source segregation, composting, and recycling to conserve our finite resources for the future generation, and to protect public health and the environment. She has helped establish zero waste model communities in the Philippines.

We’re proud to feature a woman whose name is closely associated with ecological solid waste management. The chairman of Mother Earth Foundation PH (MEF), an NGO based in the Philippines, Sonia Sales Mendoza actively worked for the passage of the Philippines’ Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. Under her leadership, MEF worked with Philippine cities and communities to implement the law. Communities in the country that have become Zero Waste or are on the road to Zero Waste have Tita Sonia, as she is fondly called, to thank for their success.

#WomenOfAsia #WomenOfZeroWaste #GoForZeroWaste #breakfreefromplastic

Isabelo "Boi" Mojica Jr. (Assistant Department Head at City Environment and Natural Resources, City of Paranaque)

Isabelo "Boi" Mojica Jr.

Assistant Department Head at City Environment and Natural Resources, City of Paranaque

Boi is presently the Assistant Department Head of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) of Parañaque City and the Co-chairman of the EMB-DENR Regional Director on the Las Piñas Parañaque River System Water Quality Management Area (LPPRS - WQMA) Governing Board for the Metro Manila South Sector consisting of 8 NCR LGUs including Bacoor City in Cavite for the Manila Bay Clean-up Rehabilitation and Preservation.

He has worked with the City Government of Parañaque since 2004 up to the present where he supervises all technical aspects of CENRO Plans and Programs on Solid Waste Management and Climate Change. He is also in charge with liaison with various national and international environmental agencies such as DENR, DOST, MMDA, WWF, UNDP and UN Habitat. He represented Parañaque City during the 2017 Compact of Mayors held at Seoul, South Korea as the Focal Person to the International Council for Local Environment Initiatives (ICLEI-Southeast Asia) for their Three -Year Environmental Projects.

A practitioner of RA 9003 since 2001 as Operator of Merville Park Subdivision Materials Recovery Facility {MRF} until 2006 serving 1,500 households. He is presently the principal on the partnership project between the City Government and PARMS on the recovery and reuse of sachets and other recyclable materials for production of various Eco Products using waste as raw materials.

Documents

[CONCEPT NOTE] Environmental Sustainability Summit.pdf

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