MEASURES FOR MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENSURING RESILIENCY Sample Clauses

MEASURES FOR MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENSURING RESILIENCY. Section 1. The Parties shall undertake education to promote environmental consciousness and ecologically sound practices among the people through their mass organizations, the mass media, the school system, and community environmental organi- zations. Environmental consciousness shall be integrated into the educational curriculum. Section 2. The Parties shall mobilize local communities, through community-based environmental organizations, to carry out activ- ities focused on environmental protection and management. Section 3. The Parties shall adopt a national land use policy consistent with the goals of agrarian reform, rural development and national industrialization to determine and develop the sec- tions of lands suitable for agricultural, industrial, reservation, recreational and other uses as well as to prevent the alienation of lands, marshes, lakes, rivers and the like in order to ensure sus- tained and self-reliant development as well as ecological balance. Section 4. The Parties shall rehabilitate and develop natural resources by: a) Prohibiting the exploitation of marine resources that have been depleted, polluted or destroyed by commercial and for- eign fishing vessels until fishing stocks have recovered. b) Undertaking a program to rehabilitate and protect watershed areas, with adequate budget support for reforestation and afforestation campaigns and which give due emphasis on using indigenous tree species and on monitoring and valida- tion by communities and people’s organizations; c) Instituting programs to immediately rehabilitate biologically dead rivers which includes stopping the construction of mega dams that encroach on and destroy forest and agricultural ecosystems; and d) Carrying out a program to mitigate biodiversity loss by pre- serving critical areas. Section 5. The Parties shall develop a program to address the problem of pollution, waste control and disposal, and lack of safe water supply. A comprehensive sewage system and service shall be developed. Measures to reduce or eliminate water pollution com- ing from industrial and agrochemical sources shall be immediately put in place. Watershed areas shall be immediately declared pro- tected areas and prioritized for rehabilitation and reforestation. Section 6. The Parties shall regulate and minimize the genera- tion of waste and their by-products and shall encourage the use of organic and recyclable materials in producing goods and ser- vices. They shall immediately close existing...
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