Why attend the Bukidnon Environmental Summit?
The Bukidnon Environmental Summit 2008 will offer practical insights into these important issues, such as:
1) How should we address the challenge of a rapidly degrading natural resources and critical areas in the region?
2) What are the strategies needed to balance economic progress while maintaining the integrity of our environment?
3) How can communities—like the indigenous peoples succeed in co-managing the natural resources inside their ancestral domains but which the State has a greater stakes considering these areas also important biodiversity and conservation areas?
4) What are effective modalities in public and private sector partnership in sustainable natural resource and environmental management?
5) In what wys, various resources are tapped and mobilized to connect to local environmental initiatives?
6) How to institutionalize environmental education at all levels of formal and informal settings?
The Environmental Summit aims at converging local executives and legislators, in partnership with environmental scientists, leaders, movers and activists from the government agencies, the civil society, the Church, and from organized communities particularly the indigenous peoples. The Summit intends to capture the issues and challenges, as well as perspectives and insights among a wide range of community of practitioners gathered in one crucial issue—how to save and protect our environment?
The Summit features six break-out sessions following specific themes or areas of interests. After a 3-hour of exchanges, the group shall be reconvened again for the plenary for reporting and open forum. Inputs from these discussions shall from part of the various positions and affirmations to be incorporated in the provincial-wide Declaration.
The event will be held at the New Bus Terminal Building at Valencia City . This event is our own way of celebrating the Environment Month. We join the rest of the world in contributing collective and relevant actions that would impact both our environment and the security of our lives.
