Senator Loren Legarda today welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s commitment to ratify the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and said that the climate journey has just begun.
“I thank the President for declaring that he will ratify the Paris Agreement. I thank the members of the Cabinet too for seeing the importance of upholding the treaty,” said Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committees on Climate Change and Finance, and the Global Champion for Resilience of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
Senator Loren Legarda highlighted the challenge of translating knowledge into practice to effectively manage, reduce and prevent disaster risks, during her speech today at the 5th Top Leaders Forum held at the SMX Convention Center, Pasay City.
Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
5th Top Leaders Forum
Science and Technology Towards Business Resilience
8 November 2016 | SMX Convention Center, Pasay City
I congratulate the organizers of the 5th Top Leaders Forum for getting our stakeholders together to inform and stimulate public conversation on the theme, “Science and technology towards building resilience.”
I have one message to everyone in this forum — We should not assume that science, research, and the tools they offer will just automatically find their way into the drawing […]
Senator Loren Legarda
Privilege Speech on the Paris Agreement
7 November 2016 | Senate Session Hall
Mr. President,
I rise today on the occasion of the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the third anniversary of Supertyphoon Yolanda. Yesterday was also the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.
In light of the commemoration of Yolanda anniversary tomorrow, allow me first to put on record that we have allocated 25.6 […]
