Senator Loren Legarda has proposed a total ban on the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags throughout the country with the objective of curbing pollution and helping the nation manage its ecological resources more wisely.
Legarda cited studies that revealed the unrelenting and neglectful use of plastic bags around the world.
According to the United States Environmental Protection [...]

Senator Loren Legarda today urged the Department of Health (DOH) to improve its public health services and ensure early prevention and control of diseases as it was found that climate change is a major factor in the increase of deaths due to various illnesses.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, said that according [...]

Senator Loren Legarda today said that President Benigno Aquino III, who is the Chairman of the Climate Change Commission, must convene the agency to ensure that disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation is prioritized in the development agenda.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, reiterated her call following a report from an [...]

Should a strong temblor hit the country, open spaces would be the safest refuge for the people, Senator Loren Legarda said.
“It is vital for any city to have designated open spaces that are not only used for recreational purposes but also as evacuation areas when natural hazards, such as earthquakes, occur,” said Legarda, Chair of [...]

Emphasizing that communication is one of the most vital infrastructure during and immediately after disasters, Senator Loren Legarda today called on telecommunication companies (telcos) to see how they can contribute more to prepare for and lessen the impact of natural hazards.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, said that, first and foremost, telcos [...]

Senator Loren Legarda today stressed the importance of a strong partnership between the government and the private sector in strengthening the country’s disaster preparedness and resilience.
During the second hearing of the Senate Committee on Climate Change on the government’s disaster preparedness, Legarda, the committee chair, said that while the government is putting in place various [...]

Senator Loren Legarda called on all the 42,000 barangays in the country to be actively involved in establishing disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures in their respective communities as part of the effort to make the nation disaster resilient.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, said that as the national government is putting in [...]

Senator Loren Legarda today said that early warning systems for disasters need not be high-tech or complicated since simple ones, such as a whistle, could prove more effective.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, said that aside from being cheap, a whistle is handy and accessible device that can be used any time [...]

World Bank-Philippines Country Director Bert Hofman will be the Guest of Honor in the Senate of the Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, Senator Loren Legarda, for a high level technical briefing on the latest report by the World Bank and the United Nations titled, “Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective [...]

Hanoi, Vietnam — Senator Loren Legarda, Chairperson of the Philippine Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, called on the member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to prioritize disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in national development agenda to avert further losses of lives and livelihoods from disasters.
“We cannot content [...]