Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday appealed to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to sign into law thebill already passed by both Houses of Congress providing for a Climate Change Commission that would formulate and implement a full-scale plan to adapt to climate change and reduce disaster losses.
“The great flood that hit Metro Manila and many provinces in Luzon last Saturday, causing heavy losses in lives and property, underscore the need for accelerating the enactment of Senate Bill No.2583, otherwise known as the Climate Change Act of 2009,” […]
This law strengthens the regulatory capacity of the current Bureau of Food and Drugs in order to address the agency’s lack of technical capability, manpower and resources.
This law provides the necessary mechanisms to enforce and guarantee the realization of women’s rights as well as adopt and undertake steps to include temporary special measures which encompass a wide variety of legislative, executive, administrative and other regulatory instruments, policies and practices aimed at accelerating the equal participation of women in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field.
This law provides mandatory hearing loss screening to infants in order to promote the early diagnosis and intervention of congenital hearing loss and prevent the morbidity caused by the late detection and rehabilitation of the same.
STATEMENT OF SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia Pacific
The Global Humanitarian Forum 2009 – Human Impact of Climate Change: New Challenges for
Humanitarianism and Sustainable Development
23 June 2009, Geneva
“The greatest development challenge of our time”
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
Four days ago, the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction concluded with 1,800 delegates from 165 nations calling on political leaders around the world to act decisively on reducing disaster risks and managing the […]
