| Baguio City, a significant urban landscape in the northern region of the Philippines, is undergoing rapid urbanization leading to severe environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and reduced ecosystem services, which ultimately strain the city’s ecological health and resilience. Despite existing policies at various scales, gaps in environmental and socio-political governance, weak enforcement mechanisms, and uncoordinated conservation efforts hinder sustainable urban environmental planning. This study employs policy review, ecological hotspot mapping, and stakeholder consultations and engagement to assess the effectiveness of urban environmental policies, revealing misalignments in regulations, ecologically vulnerable areas, and governance challenges. Through consultations with policymakers, academic institutions, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, the youth sector, and environmental groups (CSOs, NGOs, etc.), the study proposes policy and environmental governance solutions to integrate biodiversity conservation into urban planning. The Baguio Biodiversity’s Greenprint adopted the International Union for Conservation of Nature-Natural Resource Governance Framework (IUCN-NRGF) that was introduced as a strategic framework to emphasize strong monitoring and implementation, multi-stakeholder coordination, indigenous and community-based conservation; address urbanization and ecological degradation, promotion of sustainable urban greening and climate resilience, and advance scientific and evidence-based decisions. With the Biodiversity Greenprint in place, Baguio City can mitigate biodiversity loss and serve as a model urban landscape for sustainable urban development in the country. |