WHO WE ARE
Philippine Business for Environmental Stewardship (PBEST) envisions a human society that is living and constantly developing in symbiosis with the earth; More than a non-profit organization: PBEST is an intelligent and responsible society united in the goal of sustainable use of resources to ensure inter-generational equity.
Core Principles
- Resource Management – Maximum benefit with the least damage and adequate rehabilitation
- Pollution Management – Control toxic contamination of the environment
- Solid Waste Management – Proper Disposal and Recycling as a new resource
- Productive and Efficient Land Use – Rational approach to land use that fulfills a community’s economic, social and environmental needs
Core Values:
- We are stewards of land and water on which our life depends.
- We strive and recognize the need to sustain natural resources and the environment for future generation.
- We strive and recognize the need to responsibly manage our natural resources for the benefit of present and future generations.
PBEST Priority Agenda
- Managing the environment in partnership with Communities, the Private Sector and Environment Professionals makes smart business sense.
- Building Partnerships in Environmental Stewardship for sustainable development
- Enabling and Encouraging Environmental Stewardship thru policy and regulatory reforms
- Improving business practices by integrating the values of environmental stewardship
CONVENORS
Carlos Primo “CP” David, PhD
- Faculty Member
- National Institute of Geological Sciences
- University of the Philippines College of Science, Diliman, Quezon City
- Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Geology,
- Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University (1997-2003)
- M.Sc. in Geology, National Institute of Geological Sciences,
- University of the Philippines Diliman (1991-1995)
Atty. Roel Pulido
- Professor, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
- Arellano University School of Law
- June 2006 – Present (7 years 2 months)
- Teaches Constitutional Law, Political Law and Environmental Law
- Vermont Law School
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), Environmental Law
- 2011 – 2013
- Summa Cum Laude
- Ateneo de Manila University
- Juris Doctor
- 1994 – 1998
Atty. Erwin Tiamson
- Policy Consultant
- National Economic and Development Authority
- February 2013 – Present (6 months)
- Policy Consultant in Land Administration under Executive Order No. 34, Series of 2012
- Consultant in Land Administration
- The Asia Foundation
- September 2007 – 2012 (5 years)
- Team Leader Property Rights Project
- Consultant
- De La Salle Institute of Governance
- September 2007 – December 2010 (3 years 4 months)
- Consultant Land Titling Reform Project – Advocacy for the Residential Free Patent Bill (now RA 10023)
- Consultant
- AteneoCenter for Economic Research and Development
- July 2007 – December 2010 (3 years 6 months)
- Land Administration Consultant in its lands and economics project.
- San Beda Graduate School of Law
- LLM, Law
- 2011 – 2013
- San Beda College of Law
- LLB, Law
- 1991 – 1996
Atty. Lysander “Ysan” Castillo
- Secretary General
- Ateneo de Manila University – School of Law
- Juris Doctor, April 2010
- University of the Philippines B.S. Tourism
- Cum Laude, March 2006
- Development Bank of the Philippines Scholarship Awardee SY 2002-2006
- Upholding Life And Nature, Inc. (ULAN)
- Staff Lawyer
- September 2011 – July 2012
- Department of Agrarian Reform, Legal Affairs Office
- Legal Consultant August 2012 – Present