CRI 196: Introduction to Cybercrime

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Lesson title: Environmental Law and Materials:

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Lesson Objectives: References:
Introduction to Cybercrime and Environmental Laws
1. Explain the nature of Environmental law; and Protection 2020
and By: PCOL Adelene Maghinay Florendo, PNP (Ret)
2. Interpret the objectives and principles of PSSgt Rizza Ruth Maghinay Florendo
environmental law

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“OPTIMINISM is the faith that leads to achievement. Score: /30
Nothing can be done without HOPE and CONFIDENCE.”
~Helen Keller

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
Introduction (10 mins)
Hi Everyone! Congratulations on your dedication, you made it here so far. We already have the
knowledge about the fundamental principles of the environment, the interactions of human and
environment as well as the threats that affect biodiversity and ecosystems. I think you are ready to
know the Environmental Laws that you as future law enforcer will deal and enforce someday.
As a future Law Enforcer and Investigator someday, it is important for you to acquire knowledge
about the provisions and statutes that deal with implementation of environmental laws and the
international treaties and conventions about the mentioned laws since it will be your basis in
investigating crimes and prohibited acts in connection to the environmental laws. So, let’s get started
and do the task!

B.MAIN LESSON

Activity 1: Content Notes (20 mins)

Instructions: Read and understand the topics below and after that you
have to answer the questions that follow. Write it on the space provided.

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ENVIRONMENT LAW
 A collective term encompassing aspects of the
law that provide protection to the environment.
 A collection of laws, regulations, agreements and
common law that governs how human interact
with their environment.
 The purpose of environmental law is to protect
the environment and create rules for how people
can use natural resources.
 Laws may regulate pollution, the use of natural
resources, forest protection, mineral harvesting
and animal and fish populations

Environmental laws cover a wide range of topics including the following:

1. Air Quality- Air Quality laws protect the air from pollution and may include measures
to protect the air from things like ozone depletion.

2. Water Quality- Environmental laws may protect water from pollution. They may also
determine who can use water and how to handle potential problems like treating waste
water and managing surface runoff.

3. Waste Management- Municipal waste, hazardous substances and nuclear waste all
fall in the category of waste management.

4. Contaminant Cleanup- Not all environmental law focuses on preventing pollution.

Contaminant cleanup deals with addressing pollution after it happens. Laws may
include protocols for cleanup as well as civil and criminal punishment for polluters.

5. Chemical Safety- Chemical safety regulations manage things like pesticide use and
chemicals in products like plastic bottles.

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6. Hunting and Fishing- Environmental laws may regulate and protect wildlife
populations. Lawmakers determine who can hunt and fish and how these activities are
regulated.
PRINCIPLES AND FUNCTIONS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

POLLUTER-PAYS PRINCIPLE OF
PRINCIPLE PREVENTION

PRINCIPLE OF
COOPERATION

Fundamental allocation of costs The early application of measures

but not automatically also as a founded on this principle is designed not
Care of environment is a only to ward off danger and remove
principle of allocation of
common task of both the damage, but also to prevent potential
responsibility. Cost incurred to
state and citizens and must, negative environmental impacts from
avoid, remove, and compensate
as far as possible, be arising at all, if possible, at source and
damage should be allocated to
affected in cooperation by means of risk reduction- so as to
the party responsible
between the two. achieve sustainable use of the
environment, providing care for the
assets of the stake.

THE PRINCIPLES OF IMMISSIONS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF EMISSIONS

PRINCIPLES OF EMISSIONS
(From the Latin immittere = to send in),
these standards can be expressly termed
environmental quality standards and
anchored in law, especially by determining
certain limits on human interventions which
may not be exceeded for example in laying
down emission level for air quality control.
PRINCIPLE OF EMISSIONS
(From the Latin emitter = to send out)
as a result of the application of geared legal measures
to avoid or reduced human impacts on the environment
at source, for example by determining, in line with the
state-of-the-art, emission levels for hazardous
substances to be emitted into water bodies. Standards
of emission and emissions are regularly linked.

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PRINCIPLES INFLUENCING Areas of concern

ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS 1. Air quality and water- pesticides and hazardous
1. Environmentalism chemicals

2. Ecology 2. Global climate change- waste management and

agriculture
3. Conservation
3. Agriculture- remediation of biodiversity and
4. Stewardship species contaminated land protection
5. Responsibility and 4. Biodiversity and species protection-
sustainability management of public lands and natural
resources

Pollution Control
In environmental engineering, any of a variety
of means employed to limit damage done to
the environment by the discharge of harmful
substances and energies. Specific means of pollution
control might include refuse disposal systems such
as sanitary landfills, emission control systems for
automobiles, sedimentation tanks in sewerage
systems, the electrostatic precipitation of impurities
from industrial gas, or the practice of recycling. For full
treatment of major areas of pollution control, see air
pollution control, wastewater treatment, solid-waste
management, and hazardous-waste management.

Next to the conservation of species from the

loss of biological diversity, the control of pollution is
the conservation problem of greatest magnitude; it
might even be argued that pollution control is more
urgent and important.

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Waste Management
Devoted to the presentation and discussion of
information on solid waste generation,
characterization, minimization, collection,
separation, treatment, and disposal, as well as
manuscripts that address waste management
policy, education, and economic and
environmental assessments. The journal
addresses various types of solid wastes
including municipal (residential, institutional,
and commercial), agricultural,
and special (construction and demolition,
household hazardous, sewage sludge, and
non-hazardous industrial) wastes.

Contaminant Cleanup
When toxic materials like arsenic, petroleum, and dioxins get into soil and water, it can cost
considerable time and resources to make the area usable again.

TREATIES/CONVENTION/PROTOCOLS

Basel convention on the control of

Transboundary Movement of
Hazardous wastes and their Disposal
(1992)
The most comprehensive global
environment agreement on hazardous
and other wastes which aims to protect
human health and the environment
against the adverse effects
1. generation and management
2. trans-boundary movements
3. disposal
Convention on biological diversity
Resulted from the recognition that damage
to biodiversity can only be effectively dealt
with in a comprehensive manner (not dealing
with specific species or habitats
Three main objectives:
1. conservation of biodiversity;
2. sustainable use of its components
3. fair and equitable sharing of the benefits
arising from generic resources.

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UNFCCC and the Rio Convention

The UNFCCC is a “Rio Convention”, one of two opened for signature at the “Rio Earth Summit” in
1992. Its sister Rio Conventions are the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention
to Combat Desertification. The three are intrinsically linked. It is in this context that the Joint Liaison
Group was set up to boost cooperation among the three Conventions, with the ultimate aim of
developing synergies in their activities on issues of mutual concern

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted on 11 December 1997. Currently, there are 192 Parties to the
Kyoto Protocol. In short, the Kyoto Protocol operationalizes the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change by committing industrialized countries and economies in transition
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to limit and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in accordance with agreed individual
targets. The Convention itself only asks those countries to adopt policies and measures on
mitigation and to report periodically.

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It
harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its more than 1,400 Member organisations and
the input of more than 18,000 experts. This diversity and vast expertise makes IUCN the global
authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.

International Organization for Standards (ISO)

ISO is a private sector non-governmental organization founded in Switzerland in 1847. Promotes

international harmonization and development of manufacturing, product and communications
standards. Calls for environmental policies that represent a commitment to environmental
compliance and pollution prevention.

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Convention on International Trade in Endangered species (sites)

An international agreement between governments which aims to ensure that
international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival
What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?
The UNFCCC entered into force on 21 March 1994. Today, it has near-universal
membership. The 197 countries that have ratified the Convention are called Parties to the
Convention. Preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system is the
ultimate aim of the UNFCCC.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7586

An Act Providing for The Establishment and Management of National Integrated Protected Areas
System, Defining Its Scope and Coverage, And for Other Purposes.
Hereby established a National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS), which shall
encompass outstandingly remarkable areas and biologically important public lands that are habitats of
rare and endangered species of plants and animals, biogeographic zones, and related ecosystems,
whether terrestrial, wetland or marine, all of which shall be designated as "protected areas".
The following categories of protected areas are hereby established:
a. Strict nature reserve;
b. Natural Park;
c. Natural monument;
d. Wildlife sanctuary;
e. Protected landscapes and seascapes;
f. Resource reserve;
g. Natural biotic areas; and
h. other categories established by law, conventions, or international agreements which
the Philippine Government is a signatory.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 11038

An Act Declaring Protected Areas and Providing for Their Management, Amending for This Purpose
Republic Act No. 7586, Otherwise Known as the "National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS)
Act of 1992" and for Other Purposes
Also known as “Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 2018"

Salient provisions of the Act include the provision for scientific and technical support for
biodiversity conservation; delineation and demarcation of boundaries; deputation of support especially
on enforcement to the Protected Area Superintendent (PASu); and regular reporting on the status of
the Integrated Protected Area Fund (IPAF) and allocating 75% of all revenues raised to the

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Protected Area Management Board (PAMB). It also prohibits the use and possession of destructive
fishing gears within the protected seascape.
The ENIPAS Act also expands the mandates of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to appoint
special prosecutors handling cases specifically related to protected areas, and assist in the training of
wardens and rangers in arrests and criminal procedures.
Activity 2: Skill-building Activities (25 minutes +2 mins checking)

This is a self-assessment; you have to answer the question

honestly. After that check your answer against the Key to Corrections
found at the end of the SAS. Write your score on the space provided.

2.1 Give at least three (4) of any treaties/convention/protocols discussed in our lesson. Discuss your
answer.
Score: ___/20

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Activity 3: Check for Understanding (5 mins)

This is a self-assessment; you have to answer these questions

honestly. After that check your answers against Key to Corrections found
at the end of the SAS. Write your score on your paper.

Score: ___/5
3.1 MULTIPLE CHOICE
Instructions: Choose the right answer and encircle it using any writing materials

1. Is a collective term describing the network of treaties, statutes, regulations, common and customary
laws addressing the effects of human activity on the natural environment.
a. Biochemical law c. Environmental Law
b. remedial law d. Political Law

2. _____________ laws protect the air from pollution and may include measures to protect the air from
things like ozone depletion.
a. Air Quality c. Biotic law
b. water Quality d. Gas Quality

3. Environmental laws may regulate and protect wildlife populations. Lawmakers determine who can
hunt and fish and how these activities are regulated.
a. Walking and running c. Hiking and climbing
b. Hunting and Fishing d. Crawling and Seeing

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4. Kyoto Protocol operationalizes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by
committing industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases
(GHG) emissions in accordance with agreed individual targets
a. Junjin Protocol c. Sari Protocol
b. Hanama Protocol d. Kyoto Protocol

5. Fundamental allocation of costs but not automatically also as a principle of allocation of

responsibility. Cost incurred to avoid, remove, and compensate damage should be allocated to the
party responsible
a. Polluters Pay principal c. Principle of Cooperation
b. Principle of prevention d. Principle of Responsibility

3.2 Enumeration: Give at least five (5) categories of protected areas under National Integrated
Protected Areas System (NIPAS) law. Write your answer on the space provided.
Score: ___/5

Categories of protected areas

under National Integrated
Protected Areas System (NIPAS)

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A. LESSON WRAP-UP
Activity 4: Thinking About Learning (5 mins)

A. Work Tracker
You are done with this session! Let`s track your progress. Shade the
session number you just completed. You mark your place in the
work tracker which is simply a visual to help you to track how much
work you have accomplished and how much work there is left to do.

B. Think about your Learning

Instruction: There are two (2) parts of this activity; first, I would like to ask you what part of the lesson
that you found easy and difficult to answer and why? And then on the second part would be your
evaluation on achieving the learning targets.

B.1 What part of the lesson EASY DIFFICULT

did you find easy and difficult
to answer and why?
What part of the lesson?
Why?

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B.2 This is a self-evaluation on achieving the learning targets: Just place a check (/) mark on the
space provided.
1. I CAN define what human rights is all about. _________
2. I CAN discuss the types of human rights. _________

Q.1 Why are environmental conventions important?

Answer: What are environmental conventions? Conventions that focus on various issues, for example
climate change, stratospheric ozone layer protection, air quality, chemicals and nature conservation.
The conventions are tools for promoting cooperation and the development of international
environmental law and actions.

KEY TO CORRECTIONS
Rubrics on Activity 3 and 5 Rate

Organization of thoughts 8/4/2

Grammar 6/3/1

Readability 4/2/1

Cleanliness 2/1/1

TOTAL 20/10/5 Points

Activity 3.1
Answers to Checking for Understanding:
1. C
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. A

Activity 3.2
Categories of protected areas:
a. Strict nature reserve;

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b. Natural Park;
c. Natural monument;
d. Wildlife sanctuary;
e. Protected landscapes and seascapes;
f. Resource reserve;
g. Natural biotic areas; and
h. other categories established by law, conventions or international agreements which
the Philippine Government is a signatory.

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