Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
Statement of Senator Loren Legarda
IPU Parliamentary Meeting:
Improving Legislation for Disaster Risk Reduction
13 March 2015 | Sendai, Japan
My fellow parliamentarians,
It is my distinct honor and pleasure to speak before you today.
Through many decades, the complexity of the development problems in our world has been widely examined for insights into better approaches and solutions. Yet, the problems have persisted and the tasks for well-intentioned development leaders have become even more daunting as ever.
Participating at the IPU Parliamentary Meeting on Governance and Legislation for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Senator Loren Legarda today stressed the need to bring DRR down to the local level.
Legarda, UNISDR Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, said that, “as all politics is local, all DRR should be local. We have the building blocks in the model laws that we have enacted. But our laws are nothing but ink on paper if not brought down to the […]
SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the past 30 years, the world has lost more than 2.5 million people and almost $4 trillion because of natural disasters, the president of the World Bank said on Friday as governments prepare to adopt a new global plan to reduce disaster risk.
Speaking in Tokyo on his way to the northeastern city of Sendai, where a U.N. conference aims to finalize the plan, Jim Yong Kim said the 2010 earthquake in Haiti destroyed more than […]
On behalf of President Benigno S. Aquino III and the Philippine delegation, Senator Loren Legarda will deliver the Philippine Official Statement at the 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) happening on March 14-18, 2015 in Sendai, Japan.
“The Philippine Statement is a declaration of our commitment to disaster risk reduction. We share with the world how amid our vulnerability, the Philippines has been undertaking serious efforts to building resilience by adhering to the five priority action plans of the Hyogo […]
Senator Loren Legarda will address world parliamentarians at the Parliamentary Meeting, Governance and Legislation for Disaster Risk Reduction, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) on the occasion of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan.
Legarda, UNISDR Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, said she will urge her fellow legislators who are gathered in Sendai to take a proactive role in […]
