Legarda Bares Climate Change Platform for Next Term

Re-elected Senator Loren Legarda today bared her platform on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) for the next six years.

Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, said that her priority will be the assessment of the state of implementation of the laws on environment, DRR and CCA that she authored.

Legarda calls for ‘environmental audit’

MAKATI CITY, Philippines–Senator Loren Legarda said she will call for an “environmental audit” by three oversight committees when the next Congress convenes in July as she agreed with observations that the Philippines has now turned into a “water world.”
The three are the oversight committees on clean water, clean air and solid waste management.
Legarda, who currently heads the committee on climate change, has openly expressed her preference to head in the 16th Congress the environment committee now being chaired […]

Legarda Commends DepEd’s Programs for IPs, Heritage Schools

Senator Loren Legarda today lauded the Department of Education for the allotment of funds for indigenous peoples’ (IP) education and expressed support to the agency’s effort to conserve heritage schools in the country.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities, noted that the DepEd has allotted P100 million, which will be distributed to 100 school divisions nationwide, to fund education capacity-building initiatives for IPs such as training for implementers of IP Education (IPEd) program, engaging in partnership programs with […]

Loren open to Senate’s no. 2 post

MANILA – Sen. Loren Legarda on Tuesday said she is not seeking to be Senate president pro tempore, the second highest position in the Senate, although she had had talks about it with Sen. Franklin Drilon, who’s widely believed to be the next head of the chamber.
“I’m not applying for it. I don’t need it. I can live without it,” she told reporters. “Pero kung kailangang kailangan, I might consider.”
Legarda said she would like to focus more on pursuing environmental […]

Legarda: Enough of the destruction of our coral reefs

Senator Loren Legarda today reiterated her call on the Philippine Coast Guard to be more vigilant in guarding Philippine waters following another incident of a foreign vessel running aground a coral reef within the country’s waters.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) reported that the MV Unicorn Lodger, with 18 Vietnamese crew onboard, ran aground in the area of Sambauan Island, Maripipi, Biliran on Thursday night.