Senator Loren Legarda today renewed her call for humanity to uphold the concept of inter-generational responsibility—the responsibility of every generation to ensure that succeeding generations will continue to enjoy a balanced and healthful ecology.
Legarda, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, echoed United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s call on World Environment Day (June 5) to “increase the quality of life for all people without increasing environmental degradation, and without compromising the resource needs of future generations.”
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“There are a lot of lessons to be learned in the tragedy that was caused by Supertyphoon Yolanda and that is what we want to impart through this film. We hope that more people would be aware of the need to strengthen our resilience to disasters,” said Senator Loren Legarda as she welcomed guests to the Philippine premiere of ‘Taklub’, which was shown as the opening film of the 20th French Film Festival on June 3, 2015.
Senator Loren Legarda, through whose effort along with those of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Presidential Communications Operations Office-Philippine Information Agency the film got government funding, also graced the event. She echoed the ambassador’s sentiments, saying that the film’s main goal was to highlight disaster preparedness.
“When Yolanda happened so unfortunately in 2013, director Mendoza and I talked about how we can help the people to understand of risk reduction and climate change adaptation,” she said, adding […]
Sen.Loren Legarda calls on disaster management agencies and local government units to prepare for the Big One.
The United Nations Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, issued the statement following the launch of the Phivolcs’ Valley Fault System Atlas, a handbook containing detailed and updated map of areas traversed by two major faults in the Greater Metro Manila Area — the East Valley Fault and West Valley Fault.
“We have to use the information in […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Filipino film “Taklub” is the opening film for the 20th year of the French Film Festival here in the Philippines.
Present at the opening night on Wednesday is the star of the film Nora Aunor, the film’s director Brillante Mendoza and the film’s producer Senator Loren Legarda.
French Ambassador to the Philippines Gilles Garachon said that the film “Taklub” was chosen to be screened for the festival’s opening since “we want to celebrate also Philippine cinema because we […]
