Photo Release

PHL-FRANCE CLIMATE COOPERATION: French Minister for Ecological Transition and Solidarity, Nicolas Hulot (3rd from left), meets with Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III (4th from left), Senator Loren Legarda (rightmost), Chair of the Committees on Foreign Relations, Finance, and Climate Change, Committee on Environment Chair Senator Cynthia Villar (leftmost), and Committee on Energy Chair Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (not in photo). They discussed how the two nations can work together on the way forward for the Paris Agreement implementation and ensure that nations are able to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.

A delegation of Philippine senators is currently in France for an official parliamentary visit. The two nations are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Philippines-France Treaty of Friendship.