A professor of mine in my graduate study gave us a thought paper on sustainable development and so here it is. I wanted to share what I knew about sustainable development and how far is the Philippines now in terms of its being sustainable enough for its development and if given a chance this I think is my way of how my own country will achieve the what they so-called sustainable development. The Philippine Agenda 21 is an effort of the national government to provide the enabling environment for the operationalization of sustainable development. At the local level (province, cities and municipalities), efforts have been initiated to mainstream sustainable development in the planning and plan implementing process. Source: NEDA The Philippines was one of the countries that swiftly responded to the call of 1992 Rio Earth Summit committing to pursue sustainable development as defined under Agenda 21. This commitment involved the creatio...