ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATOR AND UN REGIONAL CHAMPION FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR) AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION (CCA) FOR ASIA – PACIFIC SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA HOPES FOR A MORE DISASTER-RESILIENT PHILIPPINES IN 2013.
In the course of 2012, Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, organized several workshops on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.
“We have brought DRR and CCA workshops to the various regions aiming to increase local understanding of natural hazards and climate change and their […]
I PRAY FOR A PEACEFUL, BOUNTIFUL AND JOYFUL CHRISTMAS SEASON FOR EVERYONE.
May we all be grateful for the blessings received and welcome the coming year full of hope and with a strong resolve to make our communities safe from disasters.
I wish everyone a green and safe Christmas and New Year.
“In a few days we will be celebrating Christmas, an occasion observed by Catholics. But even non-Catholic Filipinos respect the occasion and join us in celebration. This is what we, as a nation, must aim to do—respect one another’s beliefs and culture. We must find unity among diversity,”
“The Senate earlier recognized the independent filmmaker Brillante Mendoza through Senate Resolution 871 for winning both the La Navicella Venezia Cinema Award of the critics’ circle Journal of Cinema, and the P. Nazareno Taddei Award Special Mention Thy Womb at the 69th Venice International Film Festival,”
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA EXPRESSED EXTREME ALARM OVER REPORTS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKERS PROWLING MINDANAO’S DEVASTATED COMMUNITIES IN THE WAKE OF TYPHOON PABLO, AND URGED LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND CITIZENS ALIKE TO REMAIN VIGILANT.
“I have always emphasized that disasters are linked inextricably to poverty and socio-economic inequality. It is important to realize that the changing climate will have its worst effects on the poorest of the poor, and nowhere is this clearer than in these reports of human traffickers prowling Compostela […]
