Senator Loren Legarda today said that disaster risk management must be part of urban planning and stressed that geohazard mapping and assessment is an indispensable part of housing and property development.
Legarda, the United Nations Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, made the call as authorities have yet to establish the cause for the gas explosion in Serendra, which resulted to the death of three people and serious injury to one.
“Housing and property development are springing […]
Senator Loren Legarda will lead the launch and special screening of “Ligtas”, an instructional video on disaster preparedness, on June 17 at the Cinema 2 of The Podium.
During the 15th Congress, Senator Loren Legarda has authored thirteen measures that were enacted into law and has ushered the Senate concurrence in sixteen treaties and international agreements.
Legarda, who chairs the Senate Committee on Climate Change, Committee on Cultural Communities, and Committee on Foreign Relations, filed 149 bills as principal author and 25 bills as co-author. Thirteen of these bills are now laws.
Among the most notable of the bills she authored which were signed into law include the People’s Survival […]
Senator Loren Legarda today reported her accomplishments as Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in a span of around two years in the 15th Congress, highlighted by the approval of sixteen international agreements and the investigation on the dumping of toxic waste in Philippine seawaters.
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) has released the 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, “From Shared Risk to Shared Value: the Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction”.
