Senator Loren Legarda warns that “climate change will threaten the health of the public while challenging the government as it faces conundrums that include the spreading of deadly diseases and viruses, decrease in well-being of citizens, and medical relief needed with each catastrophe.”
I welcome you today to this gathering of pioneers, a generation of passionate individuals that could make the future of the world livable. We are here to talk about how climate change, our health and clean energy are interconnected.
One way to perceive how the climate works and affects the world is to allude to it like the engineering of the human body — complex and interconnected.
Climate change is threatening to affect not only the environment but also the health of the public as the government faces “conundrums” that include the spreading of deadly diseases and viruses, Senator Loren Legarda warned on Wednesday.
Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
2nd M.A.P. Climate Change Summit
“Ocean Security and Marine Biodiversity:
Challenges and Opportunities”
Session 1 – Policy, Planning & Legal Issues, Initiatives & Recommendations
10 November 2015 | Dusit Thani, Makati
I show you this map of sea surface temperatures from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration of the US (NOAA). The red part of the oceans is the hottest parts of the sea surface. Note what country lies in the […]
Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
Top Leaders Forum 2015: AR!SE Philippines Launch
10 November 2015 | SMX Convention Center
Globally, economic losses due to disasters are taking a toll on development. These losses will continue to escalate unless disaster risk reduction and management becomes integral to national development plans and business investment strategies.
In its Global Assessment Report (GAR) on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015, the United Nations said that economic losses from disasters are now reaching an average of US$250 […]