Keynote Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
6th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
Session on Gender-Responsive Approaches for Adaptation
18 October 2018 | Asian Development Bank, Mandaluyong City
Foremost, I wish to thank the Stockholm Environment Institute for leading this session, along with the Climate Change Commission and the Asian Development Bank, and for helping ensure that the rest of the sessions are infused with a gender perspective.
I just came from a successful gathering of global leaders pushing to accelerate adaptation. […]
Straight from The Hague, Netherlands where she was launched as among the commissioners of the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA), Senator Loren Legarda is set to participate at the 6th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum, the primary and biggest gathering of adaptation experts in the region, jointly hosted in Manila by the Climate Change Commission of the Philippines, Republic of Palau, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) from October 17-19, 2018.
Video Message of Senator Loren Legarda
6th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
Plenary Session: “Local Governments at the Forefront”
October 17, 2018 | ADB, Ortigas
On behalf of the Philippines and our fellow hosts, good morning and thank you for your participation in the 6th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum.
I am privileged to deliver my message for this panel session on “Local Governments at the Forefront,” as I accept the new challenge of serving in the newly formed Global Commission […]
Senator Loren Legarda today filed her certificate of candidacy (COC) for representative of the lone district of Antique.
On behalf of Legarda, who is at The Hague, Netherlands for the launch of the Ban Ki-moon and Bill Gates-led Global Commission on Adaptation where she is a Commissioner, Antique Governor Rhodora Cadiao filed the Senator’s COC at the COMELEC Provincial Election Office in San Jose de Buenavista. Legarda is running under the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), her party for more than a decade now.
Advocacy must be translated into local climate action, said Senator Loren Legarda as she stressed the need to capacitate local governments and communities to accelerate adaptation to climate change impacts.
At the launch of the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA)—jointly headed by former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates, and World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva—Legarda, who is one of the Commissioners along with more than 20 other leaders from around the globe, said that while national policies, financing and convergence across all sectors are needed to address climate change impacts, these should all translate to actual local action.
