Senator Loren Legarda and Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held a meeting on Wednesday, May 9, to discuss cooperation on raising climate ambition, particularly in ensuring that Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) would meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Read MoreSenator Loren Legarda today underscored the need to address concerns on climate finance in order to ensure that the goals of the Paris Agreement are met.
Read MoreSpeech of Senator Loren Legarda
We Are Stepping Up Climate Ambition
08 May 2018 | Bonn, Germany
The Philippines was part of the founding of the Climate Vulnerable Forum in 2009, when we organized the CVF’s first set of its activities with then President Nasheed of the Maldives. Our goal remains the same. To act not as a negotiating body but as a voice for positive change, reflecting not only the urgency of the climate crisis but the opportunity […]
Statement of Senator Loren Legarda
Press Conference of the World Resources Institute
“Talanoa Dialogue: What Happened and What It Means for COP24”
7 May 2018 | Bonn, Germany
The Talanoa Dialogue clearly re-emphasizes and reflects the vulnerabilities that we all face whether industrialized or developing nations, and the kind of bold, aggressive climate action and political will that we must all do.
Let us look at the science first. Commitments made by countries in 2015 lead to a 3 to […]
