January 24, 2014
Thomas Lloyd Cleantech Congress: Southeast Asian countries like the Philippines are driving investment in green energy by reducing imported fossil fuel dependency and increasingly adopting renewable sources.
“Meet Asia. Meet Renewable Energy’s Future” was the motto at this year’s Thomas Lloyd Cleantech Congress Europe in Frankfurt, Germany. Organized by the investment banking and management group, the event — and co-hosted by the Philippines — the event clearly illustrated the high interest and the high need for increased investments in photovoltaic and […]
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January 21, 2014
Senator Loren Legarda today stressed the link between disasters and poverty at the high level forum on strengthening disaster risk insurance, which she organized in partnership with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
“Despite our impressive economic growth, our poverty incidence hardly changed. Poverty and inequalities worsen as natural hazards and climate change constantly affect the poor and keep them trapped in a vicious cycle of risk and poverty,” said Legarda, the UN Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction […]
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January 21, 2014
Senator Loren Legarda today stressed the need to make full use of the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act to arrest and prosecute offenders of cyber pornography.
In her privilege speech, Legarda, principal sponsor of the said law, expressed alarm over recent headlines on cases of children being subjected to online pornography, some even by their own parents and guardians.
“Police authorities have already deemed cyber pornography as the top crime in the country today. The fact is already hard to take. What […]
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January 21, 2014
MANILA, Philippines — The impressive growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product trumpeted by the administration has made no dent in the poverty incidence, which is worsened by disasters and the other effects of climate change, Senator Loren Legarda said Tuesday.
“Despite our impressive economic growth, our poverty incidence hardly changed,” Legarda said in a statement. “Poverty and inequalities worsen as natural hazards and climate change constantly affect the poor and keep them trapped in a vicious cycle of risk and […]
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January 18, 2014
Senator Loren Legarda and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) are organizing a high level forum on strengthening disaster risk insurance in the Philippines as part of an effective strategy to improve the country’s resilience.
“This forum will focus on the need to protect our properties and our economy from the growing strength of natural hazards. While our foremost concern in times of disasters is to secure lives, we cannot overlook the need to protect as well the […]
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