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Environment - current issues Philippines, in 34 editions.

The entry for Philippines published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 9 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
9
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2024

Published as “Environment” (1990 to 1996), “Environment - current issues” (1997 to 2024), “Environment-current issues” (1998) and “Environment--current issues” (1999).

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1996 edition

Changed since 1995

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Published as “Environment”

current issues:
  • uncontrolled deforestation in watershed areas;
  • soil erosion;
  • air and water pollution in Manila;
  • increasing pollution of coastal mangrove swamps which are important fish breeding grounds
natural hazards:
  • astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year;
  • landslides, active volcanoes, destructive earthquakes, tsunamis
international agreements:
  • party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands;
  • signed, but not ratified - Desertification, Tropical Timber 94

current issues: uncontrolled deforestation in watershed areas; soil
erosion; air and water pollution in Manila; increasing pollution of
coastal mangrove swamps which are important fish breeding grounds
natural hazards: astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and
struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year; landslides, active
volcanoes, destructive earthquakes, tsunamis
international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change,
Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping,
Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber
83, Wetlands Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Desertification, Tropical
Timber 94

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Philippines: Environment - current issues.” The World Factbook, 1990–2024 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/philippines/environment-current-issues.

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