COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA CHALLENGED TODAY US PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA TO EFFECT DRASTIC CUTS IN AMERICA’S CARBON EMISSIONS TO PROVE HIS COUNTRY’S RESPONSIVENESS TO THE MENACING THREAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
As the only Asian speaker in the inter-parliamentary union meeting in the United Nations’ climate change conference here, Loren lamented that a bill that would set into motion America’s response to global warming remains pending before the US Senate.
“President Obama must prove his leadership and his avowed […]
GREEN ADVOCATES. SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA AND REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES PRESIDENT MOHAMED NASHEED EXCHANGED OPINIONS MOMENTS BEFORE THE COP15 MEETING IN COPENHAGEN. LOREN CHALLENGED THE US AND OTHER DEVELOPED NATIONS TO “WALK THE TALK” ON CLIMATE CHANGE.
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY EXPRESSED ELATION OVER THE PROMISING START BY THREE FILIPINA BOXERS IN THE 25TH SOUTHEAST ASIAN GAMES IN LAOS, SAYING “IT WAS A MANIFESTATION OF RP WOMEN’S VAST POTENTIAL IN THE SPORT THAT’S USUALLY RESERVED FOR MALE ATHLETES.”
While the victories by Alice Kate Aparri, Josie Gabuco and Annie Albania were still in preliminary stage of boxing competition in Laos, Loren nonetheless called their performance a feat already, as well as that of the fourth Filipina in […]
SEN. LOREN LEGARDA, NP-NPC VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, YESTERDAY URGED FILIPINOS TO UNDERTAKE RESPONSES OR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE, AS GOVERNMENT LEADERS GATHER AT COPENHAGEN.
Loren said that the world, especially developing countries like the Philippines, must “adapt or die” in responding to climate change.
In relation to the Philippines, Loren, who is noted as a champion of environmental protection, described the two main threats facing the Philippines as a result of climate change. These are “extreme weather events” and the […]
My fellow parliamentarians,
I am pleased and honored to speak before you in this landmark conference on the greatest challenge humanity faces today. Climate change is undeniably in our midst, increasing the risks of disaster in vulnerable cities and communities.
In different parts of the world, like in the Philippines and the Asia Pacific region, climate change has already ushered unprecedented disasters, among the more recent was the flooding in the Philippine capital last September, whose impact on people’s lives shall […]
