November 18, 2025
Distinguished guests, policymakers, scientists, and partners in resilience—good morning.
Let me begin with the global context—familiar to us, but impossible to ignore. Global temperatures have already risen by about 1.412°C above the pre-industrial baseline, and the long-term global average is projected to exceed 1.5°C in the early 2030s unless emissions fall rapidly. What happens globally is felt here with even greater force. The Philippines faces about 20 cyclones each year, with 8 to 9 making landfall, and as the world’s most […]
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November 17, 2025
Senator Loren Legarda, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Culture and the Arts, formally sponsored on November 12 a landmark measure institutionalizing the Schools of Living Traditions (SLT), a decisive step toward safeguarding Indigenous knowledge systems and community-based cultural practices.
The bill seeks to amend Republic Act No. 10066, or the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, by establishing the Schools of Living Traditions as a national program] under the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) to preserve and […]
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November 17, 2025
Senator Loren Legarda has sponsored Senate Bill No. 1483, seeking to extend the mandate of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II) until December 2027, underscoring the Commission’s sustained momentum and its role in driving evidence-based reforms in the education sector.
Legarda, who serves as Co-Chair of EDCOM II, cited the Commission’s landmark reports ‘Miseducation: The Failed System of Philippine Education’ and ‘Fixing the Foundations: A Matter of National Survival’ as “the most rigorous, data-informed diagnosis of our education system […]
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November 17, 2025
Senator Loren Legarda, a leading voice for climate action and sustainable development, hosted a luncheon for former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and delegates of the Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue (TPSD) 2025: Sustainable Cities and Communities on November 10 in Manila.
In her keynote message, Legarda called for urgent, climate-resilient urban transformation, grounded in recent climate disasters that have exposed the vulnerabilities of Philippine cities and the widening divide between growth and livability.
“It is my honor to host this luncheon and to […]
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November 13, 2025
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues:
I rise to sponsor Concurrent Resolution No. 3 reconstituting the Philippine Congress – Bangsamoro Parliament Forum or PCBPF. Created under Republic Act No. 11054, otherwise known as the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, the PCBPF serves as a permanent platform for cooperation between the National Government and the Bangsamoro Parliament in the exercise of their respective legislative mandates.
The establishment of BARMM stands on the foundation of many years of negotiation, institution-building, and […]
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