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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 […]
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY WARNED LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO MAINTAIN STRICT VIGILANCE AS HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO POUR, LEADING TO THE NEAR SPILLING LEVEL OF SEVERAL DAMS IN THE COUNTRY.
Legarda cited an update from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) that water levels at Ipo Dam and La Mesa Dam are 99.5m and 79.87m, respectively, as of July 27, 10:00 a.m..
The spilling levels of these dams are 100.2 and 80.15, respectively.
“We […]
AS ANOTHER TROPICAL DEPRESSION, NAMED JUANING, LASHES AT FIVE PROVINCES IN THE BICOL REGION AND EARTHQUAKE HITS SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA LED THE PHILIPPINE LAUNCH OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ GLOBAL ASSESSMENT REPORT ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AT THE SENATE.
Held a day after President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), Legarda said that she should have appreciated the SONA more “If the President asserted more clearly how the government will pursue disaster risk reduction and […]
