Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, fields questions to officials from the Department of Finance, Department of Environment and Natural Resources and other government offices, as well as local and international organizations during the high-level round table on green finance held on Monday, August 1, 2017. During the hearing, Legarda urged the representatives from the public and private sectors present to help “mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption and mitigation,” so that government can adequately respond to the needs of the country’s most vulnerable sectors. (Photo by Romeo Bugante)