Privilege Speech on the Sustainable Development Goals

September 30, 2015

Senator Loren Legarda
Privilege Speech on the Sustainable Development Goals
30 September 2015 | Session Hall
 
Mr. President,
 
We all dream of living in progressive, peaceful, safe and healthy communities. We all hope to be able to fulfill our needs and enjoy our basic rights. But we live in a world far from ideal. There is poverty around us; there is hunger, inequality, injustice, violence, natural hazards, environmental degradation, and climate change.
 
Nations sought to address these challenges through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which […]

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Keynote Speech: Looking Beyond 2016: The Future of Philippine Energy

September 23, 2015

Keynote Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
Looking Beyond 2016: The Future of Philippine Energy
PowerTrends 2015 Business Forum
September 23, 2015| SMX Convention Center
 
I am very honored to be here today at the PowerTrends Business Forum and I salute Leverage International and Puno & Puno for this laudable venture.
 
I was among the co-authors of the Renewable Energy Law in 2008. Our laws are hailed as among the best in the world, but without strict and effective implementation they are of very little use. At […]

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Speech: 9th Senior Disaster Management Officials Forum

September 22, 2015

Speech of Senator Loren Legarda*
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Philippines 2015
9th Senior Disaster Management Officials Forum
22 September 2015 | Iloilo City, Philippines
 
*(Delivered by Commissioner Emmanuel de Guzman, Climate Change Commission)
 
It is my distinct honor and pleasure to speak before senior disaster management officials of the Asia-Pacific economies.
 
Foremost, we express our solidarity with the nation of Chile and commiserate with those who lost their loved ones in the recent 8.3 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit the country. But we also admire […]

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Keynote Speech: Climate Reality Project: The Filipino Youth on the Road to Paris Forum

September 1, 2015

Keynote Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
Climate Reality Project: The Filipino Youth on the Road to Paris Forum
Bantayog ng mga Bayani Auditorium, Quezon City
1 September 2015
 
“The day would not be too far when all else would be lost not only for the present generation, but also for those to come—generations which stand to inherit nothing but parched earth incapable of sustaining life. [1]”
 
I have just quoted the Philippine Supreme Court in its landmark decision 22 years […]

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