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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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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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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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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November 7, 2016
Senator Loren Legarda
Privilege Speech on the Paris Agreement
7 November 2016 | Senate Session Hall
Mr. President,
I rise today on the occasion of the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the third anniversary of Supertyphoon Yolanda. Yesterday was also the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.
In light of the commemoration of Yolanda anniversary tomorrow, allow me first to put on record that we have allocated 25.6 […]
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