The extraction of Philippine energy resources increased from 2000 to 2017. Coal extraction increased by almost ninefold from 1.4 million metric tons (MT) to 13.3 million MT in 2017. Meanwhile, oil extraction increased from 0.4 million barrels of oil (mmbo) to 1.6 mmbo in 2017.
The stock of surface and soil water in the country showed a decline of about 20.4 percent for the year 2015. At the beginning of the 2015, the stock of water amounted to a total of 94.6 billion cubic meters (BCM), decreasing to 75.3 BCM at the end of the same year.
The total tree-covered area of the Philippines increased from 6.5 million hectares in the beginning of 2010 to 7.8 million hectares in 2015. The trend for tree-covered area increased steadily with an average annual growth rate of 3.6 percent.
