Research, Development, Extension and Knowledge Management

a.  Pursue research, development and extension to:

•  Demonstrate, develop and replicate low-cost technologies to optimize the recycling, reuse, and recovery of solid waste, including the conversion of residual organic materials into clean renewable energy;

•  Establish valuation of resources and develop a system of natural resources accounting;

•  Determine the values and potential benefits of the natural resources.

•  Conduct gender-aware resource-use studies to recognize roles, impacts and opportunities among women in ENR ecological profiling;

•  Develop DRR and CCA technologies;

•  Develop clean and energy efficient technologies;

•  Rehabilitate mines to ensure that abandoned/inactive, current and future mines are effectively rehabilitated;

•  Obtain the most benefits and value-added from mineral resources;

•  Geologically assess and explore of undiscovered mineral resources;

•  Determine forest-based industrial requirements;

•  Develop resource-based management technologies;

•  Provide clear guidelines to minimize environmental impacts of existing technologies (e.g., incinerators) and new technologies (GMOs, e-waste, nano technology, etc.);

•  Develop and propagate low-cost noncombustion technologies for infectious and hazardous wastes;

•  Develop risk and vulnerability assessments using gendered tools and generating gender-disaggregated data; and

•  Assess metallic and nonmetallic minerals, both onshore and offshore;

b.  Make available timely, accurate and updated science-based information on the environment though an effective knowledge management system:

•  Establish the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI);

•  Establishment of baseline information on the environment and natural resources through ecosystem profiling;

•  Establish strategic organization structure for information systems sharing;

•  Update the national topographic and nautical chart databases, including electronic charts;

•  Develop a National Coastal and Marine Resource Information Management System to support research, policy formulation and implementation and public education and communication on coastal resources and the environment;

•  Rationalize mapping activities; and

•  Establish a monitoring and evaluation mechanism to measure and push performance to a high-level.

c.  Establish National Wildlife Research Center pursuant to the Wildlife Act (RA 9147).