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I. NATIONAL INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS
INTO THE POLICY DECISION PROCESS
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B. National structure for the integration of environmental concerns into
economic policy decisions
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In general, while concern for greater protection of the environment
has existed for over two decades, only in the 1990s have more concrete
steps have been taken to promote less ecologically destructive means of
development. The Earth Summit, which endorsed Agenda
21 for sustainable development and in which 179 governments participated,
including the Philippines, paved the way for rethinking and reorienting
national goals and priorities to make development environmentally sustainable.
The scope for integrating the environment and the economy at the national
level could be defined when formulating national development goals and
strategies; at the sectoral level it could be defined in the preparation
of agency plans, programmes and projects.
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