March 13, 2015
Participating at the IPU Parliamentary Meeting on Governance and Legislation for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Senator Loren Legarda today stressed the need to bring DRR down to the local level.
Legarda, UNISDR Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, said that, “as all politics is local, all DRR should be local. We have the building blocks in the model laws that we have enacted. But our laws are nothing but ink on paper if not brought down to the […]
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March 13, 2015
SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the past 30 years, the world has lost more than 2.5 million people and almost $4 trillion because of natural disasters, the president of the World Bank said on Friday as governments prepare to adopt a new global plan to reduce disaster risk.
Speaking in Tokyo on his way to the northeastern city of Sendai, where a U.N. conference aims to finalize the plan, Jim Yong Kim said the 2010 earthquake in Haiti destroyed more than […]
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March 13, 2015
On behalf of President Benigno S. Aquino III and the Philippine delegation, Senator Loren Legarda will deliver the Philippine Official Statement at the 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) happening on March 14-18, 2015 in Sendai, Japan.
“The Philippine Statement is a declaration of our commitment to disaster risk reduction. We share with the world how amid our vulnerability, the Philippines has been undertaking serious efforts to building resilience by adhering to the five priority action plans of the Hyogo […]
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March 12, 2015
Senator Loren Legarda will address world parliamentarians at the Parliamentary Meeting, Governance and Legislation for Disaster Risk Reduction, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) on the occasion of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan.
Legarda, UNISDR Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, said she will urge her fellow legislators who are gathered in Sendai to take a proactive role in […]
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March 11, 2015
Senator Loren Legarda today said that the new priority action framework for disaster risk reduction must address the growing risks present in countries especially in vulnerable communities.
Legarda, United Nations Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, made the statement as governments, parliaments, civil society, non-governmental organizations, private sector and all relevant stakeholders gather in Sendai, Japan from 14-18 March 2015 for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) wherein the successor to the […]
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