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Ordinance of Planting of Trees

The ordinance mandates that expectant parents plant two trees for each newborn child within 30 days of birth. Graduating senior high school and college students must also plant two trees per student in designated areas. The acts aim to increase environmental awareness and the role of trees in mitigating climate impacts. Planting trees removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it, helping address climate change at relatively low cost. Even during the pandemic, individuals can help the environment through volunteering in tree planting programs or educating others.

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Ordinance of Planting of Trees

The ordinance mandates that expectant parents plant two trees for each newborn child within 30 days of birth. Graduating senior high school and college students must also plant two trees per student in designated areas. The acts aim to increase environmental awareness and the role of trees in mitigating climate impacts. Planting trees removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it, helping address climate change at relatively low cost. Even during the pandemic, individuals can help the environment through volunteering in tree planting programs or educating others.

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Ordinance of Planting of Trees

FOR PARENTS WHO HAVE NEW BORN BABY 2020 UPWARD and FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS

Trees provide a multitude of benefits, both long and short term. As well as being attractive
aesthetically, they remove and store carbon from the atmosphere, slow heavy rain and so
reduce the risk of flooding, enhance air quality and help the urban heat island effect by
reflecting sunlight and providing shade. Planting trees and avoiding deforestation are key
measures in reducing the human impact on global climate change.

The Climate Change Commission (CCC) cited the approval on third and final reading of
House Bill (HB) 6930 or the “Family Tree Planting Act” and HB 6931 or the “Graduation
Legacy for Reforestation Act” that will help promote a “whole-of-nation” approach in
protecting and preserving the environment. Both bills passed at the House of Representatives
on August 26, 2020.

The “Family Tree Planting Act” or HB 6930 mandates all expectant parents residing in our
country, whether legally married or not to plant two trees for every child born in their own
home or in an area to be designated by the Barangay Council where they reside. They have
to plant within 30 days after the child’s birth. To ensure compliance, the Local Civil Registry
where the birth of the child shall be registered, is ordered to only release the Certificate of
Live Birth of the child upon the presentation of the parents’ sworn statement of
compliance to the measure.

While the “Graduation Legacy for Reforestation Act” or HB 6931 mandates graduating
students of senior high school and college students to plant two trees per student in their
locality designated by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources or DENR,
together with the Local Government Unit and the schools, universities or colleges. The
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will be determining the planting
sites and species of trees that will fit the climate, soil type, and location. This act will be added
among the requirements for the student’s graduation.

Family Tree Planting Act and Graduation Legacy for Reforestation Act will help increase the
awareness of all Filipinos, particularly families and the youths on the current state of the
environment and the role of trees in mitigating climate impacts and disasters by retaining
water to prevent landslides and flashfloods, acting as carbon sinks, and protecting and
restoring natural ecosystems and biodiversity.

Through these bills, we hope that these could further support and sustain local greening
initiatives and mainstream the importance of planting the right kind or the right type of
trees, especially in unprotected areas in our country. 
As stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Climate
Change and Land, “planting trees will always result in capturing more atmospheric carbon
dioxide and thus in annual mean cooling of the globe.”

As plants and trees grow, they take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into
sugars through photosynthesis. Planting additional trees could remove more carbon from
the atmosphere and store it for a long time, as well as improve soil quality at a relatively
low cost, it added.

Even during this pandemic, we recognize that the climate crisis still exists and we have to
act now before it is too late. Even we are not a graduating student or a parent having a
child, we can help by joining or volunteering in tree planting programs in our area.
Teach others about the importance of the environment and how they can help to save it. We
can encourage people to live in a way that doesn't hurt the environment. And support locals
that operate in ways that minimize damage to the environment.

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