Senator Loren Legarda today said that despite the threats of climate change, there are opportunities to seize to promote green growth.
Legarda, UNISDR Global Champion for Resilience and Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, made the statement in her keynote speech at the 31st Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Manila, organized by The Climate Reality Project led by Former US Vice President Al Gore.
TACLOBAN – Former United States Vice President and renowned environmental activist Al Gore is now in Tacloban City, which was among the worst hit areas by super typhoon “Yolanda” (international name: “Haiyan”) in November 2013, to meet with local officials and discuss climate change issues.
Gore, one of the men behind the hit documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth”, arrived at the Tacloban City Airport at around 3 p.m. Saturday. He was welcomed by Mayor Alfred Romualdez.
Accompanied by Senator Loren Legarda, who chairs the Senate committees on environment and natural resources, climate change, and cultural communities, Gore first went to Barangay 88 in San Jose to visit a family of Yolanda survivors.
TACLOBAN CITY-Former United States Vice President Albert “Al” Gore made a quick visit to this city which had been devastated by the world’s strongest typhoon to hit land.
From the village, Gore went to the mass grave located at Holy Cross Memorial Park in Barangay Basper where 2,200 victims of Yolanda were buried.
He spent 20 minutes at mass grave and prayed silently.
He, Legarda and Romualdez also offered a wreath and lit candles.
In observance of International Women’s Day, Senator Loren Legarda today said that the Philippines can lead the global effort to achieve gender equality and women empowerment.
Legarda, who authored several of the country’s laws on the protection of women’s rights, said that the Philippines has been consistently at the top tier in the gender equality index, noting that in the Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Philippines ranks first in Asia, and always at the top ten countries globally.
Senator Loren Legarda is urging local government units (LGUs) to comply with the law and submit their local climate change action plans (LCCAP) to the Climate Change Commission (CCC).
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change and principal author of Republic Act No. 9729 or the Climate Change Act, is upset that as of July 2015, only 584 out or 36 percent of 1,634 cities and municipalities inn the country have LCCAP.
