Keynote Speech: Climate-Adaptive and Disaster-Resilient (CLAD) Awards for Cities and Municipalities

November 25, 2016

Senator Loren Legarda’s Keynote Speech
Climate-Adaptive and Disaster-Resilient (CLAD) Awards for Cities and Municipalities
25 November 2016 | Sofitel Philippine Plaza
The future communities in the Philippines will vastly differ from the ones we live in today. As we witness the 21st century unfold, our nation faces a new set of technological, socioeconomic and global challenges that are more complex than any of us have ever experienced in our shared history. They dramatically alter the way we live in […]

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Message: 8th National Climate Change Consciousness Week

November 24, 2016

Message of Senator Loren Legarda*
8th National Climate Change Consciousness Week
The Time Is Now: Women Leadership in Building Climate and Cultural Resilience
24 November 2016 | Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila
(*Read by a Representative of Sen. Legarda)
 
Our nation has been gaining significant improvement in promoting gender equality. The Philippines has consistently been first in South and Southeast Asia and among the top 10 in the world in successfully closing the gender gap since 2006, when the World Economic Forum […]

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Sponsorship Speech: FY 2017 General Appropriations Act

November 14, 2016

SPONSORSHIP SPEECH
SEN. LOREN LEGARDA
FY 2017 GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT
November 14, 2016
 
Mr. President, Distinguished Colleagues:
 
We live in extraordinary times and we are going through an extraordinary time of change.
 
It is therefore my honor to present to you our proposed 2017 budget that sets bold plans to meet not just today’s needs, but one that looks beyond 2017 – one that contributes to delivering long-term solutions to the country’s long-term problems.
 
The P3.350 trillion proposed National Budget for […]

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Opening Statement: Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

November 10, 2016

Opening Statement of Senator Loren Legarda
Committee on Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on the Agreement of the
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
10 November 2016, Recto Room
 
Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the Articles of Agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
 
Similar to the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, the AIIB is a multilateral lending institution first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier […]

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Speech: 5th Top Leaders Forum

November 8, 2016

Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
5th Top Leaders Forum
Science and Technology Towards Business Resilience
8 November 2016 | SMX Convention Center, Pasay City
I congratulate the organizers of the 5th Top Leaders Forum for getting our stakeholders together to inform and stimulate public conversation on the theme, “Science and technology towards building resilience.”
I have one message to everyone in this forum — We should not assume that science, research, and the tools they offer will just automatically find their way into the drawing […]

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