Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda presides over deliberation in the Senate. FILE Photo / Joseph Vidal of Senate PRIB
MANILA, Philippines — As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda underscored the impact of digital innovation in promoting gender equality and women empowerment, as she also recognizes the women’s role in the global fight against the climate crisis. “This year, the UN decided that the theme will be something rather fresh: ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality was chosen for 2023.’ I believe it will be women, whose shackles have been cut, that will innovate to carry us through the climate crisis. They will be the ones inventing the mechanisms and the means to keep the homes humming in the midst of the calamities and challenges and they will find a way,” she stated.
“The lesson to be learned here is from Albert Einstein — ‘We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.’ Climate change and the pandemic have afforded us the opportunity to look for new solutions, innovate, frame our issues differently and perhaps find the tipping point where we have not been looking before,” Legarda said.