ERLINDA C. CREENCIA, EnP.

CITY ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES OFFICE

CITY GOVERNMENT OF SANTA ROSA
PROVINCE OF LAGUNA

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 Comparative Land Use  
% Share 
LAND USE  1946  2010 
Built‐Up 
3.93%  79.76% 
Areas 
Agricultural 
96.07%  20.24% 
Areas 
TOTAL  100%  100% 

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 A banner program
to strategically
provide direction in
the development of
programs in a
holistic and
sustainable manner

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Responding to Climate Change through GHG
Accounting and Management
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SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Basuranihan
Charcoal Briquetting
Facility

Materials Recovery
Facility

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Resolution No. 74-2015,
a MOA among DENR,
NSWC, DEPEd, Toyota
Autoparts, Inc. and the
City of Santa Rosa on the
implementation of
School-based Ecological
Solid Waste Management
Program (SESWMP)
* Solid waste
management modules
incorporated into the
school curriculum for
Grades 3,4,5 and 6

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STREET CLEANING ENVIRONMENTAL ARMY

About 100 all-

About 400 male
streetsweepers personnel
are deployed to were
maintain the employed by
cleanliness of the City to
roads and maintain
thoroughfares in water bodies;
the 18 barangays i.e., rivers,
of the City canals

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WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Integrated Watershed
Management Council

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AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT E-Vehicle

AMBIENT AIR QUALITY USE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES

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SIkad-LAKad-takBO
EARTH HOUR 2016 :
‘SHINE A LIGHT ON
CLIMATE ACTION’
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 CONTINUING PROGRAMS
AND PROJECTS TO SUSTAIN
URBAN RESILIENCY
• Promotion of urban agriculture
GIZ URBAN NEXUS PROJECT

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 Installation of solar panels in the city government Disaster Risk Reduction
Management Command Center
 Installation of solar street lights
 Purchase of additional e-vehicle
 Change of CFCs to LED lights in government facilities
 Establishment and creation of an integrated Sta. Rosa Watershed Management
Council to harmonize plans of the 4 LGUs in order to have an integrated
approach on climate change responses
 Climate Change Expenditure tagging to monitor sustained efforts on EHCC

PIPELINE PROJECTS
 Formulation of a green building code to promote energy efficiency
 Formulation of Sewage and Septage Management Ordinance
 Traffic Impact Assessment
 Waste to energy as alternative source of energy
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