Senator Loren Legarda

For the past three decades, Senator Loren Legarda has dedicated her life and work to serving the Filipino people as a lawmaker and as a passionate advocate of green growth and sustainable development.

She has authored and sponsored landmark laws on environmental protection, disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, namely, the Clean Air Act (RA 8749), the Solid Waste Management Act (Ra 9003), the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act (RA 10121), the Climate Change Act and the People's Survival Fund Law (RA 10174).

Senator Legarda has produced films that seek to explain the science of climate change, its impact on our everyday lives and how Filipinos can avert and adapt to the changing climate. These are "Ulan sa Tag-Araw: Isang Dokyu-drama Ukol sa Pagbabago ng Klima" (Rains in the Summer: A Documentary Drama on Climate Change), children's animation movie "Ligtas Likas", "Buhos" (Downpour), and most recently, "Ligtas". The Senator also collaborated with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) in the documentary "Now is the Time", which calls on leaders and decision-makers to strive for disaster-resilient development.

In 2000, the World Economic Forum named Senator Legarda as among the Global Leaders for Tomorrow. The year after, the United Nations Environment Programme named her its Laureate and included her in the Global 500 Roll of Honor. In 2008, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction appointed Legarda as its champion in the Asia and the Pacific region with a high-level mission to enthuse world leaders and lawmakers to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into development. In 2012, the United Nations recognized Senator Legarda as a Hero of Resilience in line with the celebration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction.

Senator Legarda is also the only female to top the Philippine Senatorial election twice, and the only woman to serve as majority floor leader. Now on her third term, she chairs the Senate Committees on Environment and Natural Resources, Climate Change, and Cultural Communities.