The objectives of the Strategic Environmental Management Plan for Batangas entails to strengthen multi-stakeholder participation by establishing institutional mechanisms that will encourage mobilization and capacity building. Secondly, to improve management of municipal solid, industrial and agricultural wastes. Thirdly, to restore and manage the province’s terrestrial, coastal marine and freshwater habitat and ecosystems and conserve its biodiversity as to protect and manage ground and surface water resources of the province’s bay-regions. Lastly, protecting the fishery resources of the province that will ensure food security. Furthermore, the plan aims to achieve a healthy and acceptable balance between the overall economic development and the conservation of resources and of the protection of the environment.