“LISTEN TO THE FACES” OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED LEAST TO CLIMATE CHANGE BUT ARE PAYING THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR IT.
This is the main message Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, wanted to convey in coming up with a photo exhibit entitled Visage: Portraits of Filipinos Facing Climate Change, co-organized with Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities headed by Red Constantino.
In her message, Legarda explained that […]
RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE IN CONVEYING ITS PROFOUND SYMPATHY TO THE PEOPLE OF NORWAY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE DISASTER BROUGHT BY THE BOMBING IN OSLO AND THE CARNAGE IN UTOYA ISLAND
Scope: National
Legislative status: Pending in the Committee (8/3/2011)
http://www.senate.gov.ph/lis/bill_res.aspx?congress=15&q=SRN-541
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SRN – 541 (as filed)
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Statistics dominate headlines and discourse on the catastrophes of climate change: inches of rainfall, damages to properties and businesses, costs of livestock and crop destruction, and so on. These are the vital yet ultimately impersonal figures that are often presented to us. Even tolls on people displaced and killed remain just that-disquieting but faceless numbers.
Our exhibit, co-organized by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities headed by Red Constantino, hopes to […]
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA HAS SPOKEN IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WHERE SEVERAL PERSONALITIES HAVE COME OUT IN THE OPEN TO TELL ALL ABOUT THE COMMISSION OF ELECTORAL FRAUD, PARTICULARLY THE SWITCHING OF CONGRESSIONAL COPIES OF THE ELECTION RETURNS (ERS) IN THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
Loren said: “The ghosts of the 2004 elections are once again haunting us because there was no absolute closure in the protest I filed before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET).”
Loren was referring […]
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA REITERATED HER CALL TO THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO ENFORCE A HEIGHTENED LEVEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, MANAGE RAPIDLY INCREASING EXPOSURE TO HAZARDS FROM URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND ENSURE EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY-BASED EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS, AS HEAVY RAINS BROUGHT BY TYPHOON JUANING POUNDED LUZON YESTERDAY.
“Although we tend to focus only on the big disasters – the mega typhoons and disastrous floods and landslides such as Tropical Storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng in 2009 that killed nearly a thousand […]
