Legarda: Increase DSWD budget, make it a pandemic recovery budget

September 30, 2021

Three-term Senator Loren Legarda today renewed her call for a national budget that ensures the integration of human capital development and climate resilience in government policies and programs.
Legarda, former Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance, made the statement during the budget deliberation of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the House of Representatives stressing that the proposed Php 191.4 billion budget for the agency under the 2022 National Expenditure Program (NEP) should be augmented to provide […]

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Message of Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda during the CVF Asia Regional Dialogue 2021

September 29, 2021

CVF Asia Regional Dialogue 2021
Ministerial Meeting
September 29, 2021
 
Friends and colleagues at the Climate Vulnerable Forum:
The reports of the past months tell us that we may not be doing enough to save our planet and our future.
Global warming might breach past the 1.5 survival threshold by 2040, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Our NDCs lead to a 2.7-degree world, according to the UN. July this year was also said to be the hottest month ever recorded, with […]

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Legarda: Improve Access of LGUs to People’s Survival Fund

September 28, 2021

Amid the ongoing national budget deliberations in the House of Representatives and Senate, Deputy Speaker and Antique Congresswoman Loren Legarda urged government agencies to improve the capacity of local government units and organizations to access climate finance from the People’s Survival Fund (PSF).
 
The PSF is the country’s local adaptation fund meant to provide grants to local government units and organizations for their projects and programs that can help communities and ecosystems cope with the impacts of climate change. Legarda authored […]

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Philippines’ Heritage Trees in Schools in 64th episode of ‘Stories for a Better Normal’ Series

September 28, 2021

MANILA, 28 September 2021 — The 64th episode of “Stories for a Better Normal: Pandemic and Climate Change Pathways” will feature Department of Education (DepEd) teachers and Bureau of Learner Support Services – Youth Formation Division (BLSS-YFD) officers to showcase public schools that exert efforts in preserving Heritage Trees.
The online conversation, conceptualized by DepEd Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service (DRRMS) and hosted by a three-term former Senator, now Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, will air on Thursday, 30 September 2021, […]

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What Loren Legarda would advise her younger self

September 28, 2021

My life is like a bullet train, but I’m grateful with all the blessings and failures I have experienced in life,” shares Antique Rep. Loren Legarda. Being the first Filipino woman to top the senatorial elections twice in 1998 and 2007 this public servant, environmentalist, cultural worker, multi-awarded journalist and mother of two is no stranger to us.
Loren has dedicated her life these past two decades to public service. During the May 2019 elections, she won by a landslide to […]

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