In 2009, the PHL suffered economic damages equivalent to 2.7% of its GDP from two typhoons alone.[1]
Based on a World Bank report released this year, 74% of PHL’s population have been found to be vulnerable to natural disasters.[2]
Read MoreRe-elected Senator Loren Legarda today bared her platform on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) for the next six years.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, said that her priority will be the assessment of the state of implementation of the laws on environment, DRR and CCA that she authored.
Read MoreMAKATI CITY, Philippines–Senator Loren Legarda said she will call for an “environmental audit” by three oversight committees when the next Congress convenes in July as she agreed with observations that the Philippines has now turned into a “water world.”
The three are the oversight committees on clean water, clean air and solid waste management.
Legarda, who currently heads the committee on climate change, has openly expressed her preference to head in the 16th Congress the environment committee now being chaired […]
Senator Loren Legarda today lauded the Department of Education for the allotment of funds for indigenous peoples’ (IP) education and expressed support to the agency’s effort to conserve heritage schools in the country.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities, noted that the DepEd has allotted P100 million, which will be distributed to 100 school divisions nationwide, to fund education capacity-building initiatives for IPs such as training for implementers of IP Education (IPEd) program, engaging in partnership programs with […]
MANILA – Sen. Loren Legarda on Tuesday said she is not seeking to be Senate president pro tempore, the second highest position in the Senate, although she had had talks about it with Sen. Franklin Drilon, who’s widely believed to be the next head of the chamber.
“I’m not applying for it. I don’t need it. I can live without it,” she told reporters. “Pero kung kailangang kailangan, I might consider.”
Legarda said she would like to focus more on pursuing environmental […]
