In order to push forward sustainable management of the country's environment and natural resources, the passage of the following pieces of priority legislation should be pursued:
1. National Land Use Bill - to provide a rationalized land use planning in the country and put in order the national laws on land uses (such as agrarian reform, protected areas, ancestral domain, fisheries, forestry, agriculture agricultural modernization, mining and housing) that are sector specific and do not address the cross cutting land use issues;
2. A Sustainable Forestry Bill to provide the clear policy for the sustainable management of the country's forest resources;
3. Land Administration Reform Bill - to address the pervading multi titling problems through the rationalization of the various agencies responsible in land titling and related activities and address this concern through the adoption of the one stop concept;
4. Land Administration Code - update and harmonize land administration laws enacted at different dispensations to support the future roles of key agencies towards addressing cadastral information requirements and land administration services for sustainable development;
5. Marine Pollution Bill - to respond to the pressing need of reducing risks and preventing disasters caused by trade and other economic activities in the marine environment and its resources;
6. Permanent Forest line Bills - to provide the specific boundaries limits of forestlands per province delineating areas in which no other land use may prevail;
7. Bills on Enactment of Priority Protected Areas - to cover areas that are among the Key Biodiversity Areas in the country which are globally significant and considered as actually manageable for biodiversity conservation;
8. Integrated Coastal Management Bill - to institutionalize the Integrated Coastal Management in the Philippines as a national strategy to ensure the sustainable development of the country's coastal and marine environment and resources and establishing supporting mechanisms for its implementation;
9. Improvement and enhancement of Small-Scale Mining Law to make it more responsive to present and emerging needs on environmental, safe-time health and social concerns;
10. Enact legislation recognizing access to clean water and sanitation as a human right;
11. People's Survival Fund (PSF) Bill to amend the Climate Change Act of 2009 and put up a fund that will finance adaptation programs and projects that are directly supportive of the objectives enumerated in the local climate change action plans (LCCAP) of LGUs and communities;
12. Archipelagic Principle Bill to amend Section 4 of RA 8550 or the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 that provides guidelines on the delineation of municipal waters using the archipelagic principle;
13. Extended Producers Responsibility Bill to compel industries, manufacturers, importers and sellers to take-back the waste and end-of-life of their products or goods;
14. Formulation of the Electronic Waste (e-waste) policy framework to provide a mechanism on how to dispose, reuse and/or recycle waste coming from electronic equipment;
15. Environmental Code for LGUs to provide LGU budget appropriations for localized environmental activities;
16. Marine Protected Area Bill to mandate local government units to establish marine protected areas in their respective municipal waters;
17. PAG-ASA Modernization Law to allocate funds for the needed reforms of the agency; and
18. Bill on Hazardous and Radio Active Waste Management to provide penalties for violation thereof and for other purposes.
The following pieces of proposed legislation need further discussion and deliberation:
19. Minerals Management Bill. This bill pushes for the conservation of nonrenewable mineral resources for the benefit of both present and future generations of Filipinos by adopting a sustainable, rational, needs-based minerals management, geared towards effective utilization of mineral resources for national industrialization and modernization of agriculture; and
20. Ratification of the Basel Ban Amendments. The Basel Convention is an international treaty seeking to reduce movements of hazardous wastes between nations, and specifically preventing the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries (LDC). The country has yet to ratify its position on the said Convention.