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.
Statement of Senator Loren Legarda
Opening Ceremony, Launch of the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA)
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | October 16, 2018
Main Hall, The Ridderzaal, The Hague, Netherlands
Esteemed colleagues in the Global Commission on Adaptation,
I wish to express my profound gratitude for this representation.
Joining you further challenges me, beyond my work in the Philippine legislature and for the UNISDR and the UNFCCC, to advocate for a shared and better understanding of the gravity of the climate crisis, […]
In her continuing advocacy to advance climate resilience, especially of the Philippines and other climate-vulnerable nations, Senator Loren Legarda has accepted the invitation to be a Commissioner of the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA).
The GCA is headed by former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates, and World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva and was formally launched today, October 16, 2018, at The Hague, Netherlands. Its managing partners are the Global Center on Adaptation based in Rotterdam, Netherlands and World Resources Institute (WRI) based in Washington, D.C.
Senator Loren Legarda is the choice of seven out of ten Antiqueños to be their representative in Congress.
In a survey conducted by Random Access Consultants, Inc. (RACI) from September 15-19, 2018, 71.7 percent of Antiqueños want Legarda to be the Representative of the Lone District of the Province of Antique. Only 24.7 percent chose former Governor Exequiel Javier.
