Senator Loren Legarda yesterday lauded the efforts of the private sector in helping the government address climate change-–induced problems that tend to worsen the lives of the poor.
“While traditionally, the government has the burden of uplifting its people out of poverty, our long experience with massive poverty has shown that components of the private sector [...]
Senator Loren Legarda and members of the diplomatic corps braved inclement weather yesterday morning (June 4) in celebrating World Environment Day by planting trees at the Pook Kagitingan of the Rizal Park in Manila.
The tree-planting activity was led by Loren and members of the environmental group Luntiang Pilipinas (Green Philippines). Luntiang has so far planted [...]
Senator Loren Legarda yesterday said the Philippines is gaining momentum in its effort to restore its once verdant forests needed to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Legarda made the statement during her visit in San Jose, Antique yesterday where she was guest of honor and keynote speaker during the inauguration of a seedling bank [...]
Senator Loren Legarda yesterday urged the people of Batangas to join in the tree-planting movement which is the “first step to take towards our aim to continually conquer the challenge of reviving and revitalizing our environment for the benefit of the Filipino people and the future generations.”
Speaking before residents of Lipa City in San Fernando [...]
Los Baños, Laguna (June 25, 2008)— Senator Loren Legarda vowed today to work closely with fellow environmental advocates to strengthen the environment assessment system that had been enacted into law in 1978.
Saying that the Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System (PEISS) is “a work in progress,” Legarda said that she would file a bill in the [...]
I rise to bring to the attention of this august chamber a crisis of global proportion. One that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns as the greatest threat to humanity today—global warming. The Secretary General of the International Federation, Markku Niskala, said last week that, “In recent years we [...]
We will be celebrating World Environment Day in two days in the horrific context of the second deadliest cyclone in recent history and a 7.9 earthquake in Western China.
And right here at home, we had a mid-May typhoon that ravaged La Union, Zambales and Pangasinan - provinces just a bus ride from this chamber. [...]
While Metro Manila is ecologically under siege and overwhelmed by toxic political garbage, some of our local communities are enjoying a period of unprecedented environmental renaissance.
Fresh and audacious initiatives for the environment have been taking roots in pioneering local communities, their dynamic leaders driving and pushing these environmental initiatives into certain success.
I have been [...]
Committee Report No. 99
Senate Bill No. 2583
“An Act Mainstreaming Climate Change into Government Policy Formulations, Creating for this purpose the Climate Change Commission
Mr. President,
There is no time more ideal than today to ask this chamber to pass with urgency and unanimity the committee report that seeks to strengthen our country’s resolve to address [...]
“This is all about trees and watersheds,” Sen. Loren Legarda said of the impending water and power shortages in Metro Manila and nearby provinces amid the less-than-normal rainfall since May.
“We’ve been warning repeatedly about this in the past. The unabated destruction of trees has clearly diminished in a big way our natural ground capacity to [...]