by anyajulia | Sep 10, 2009 | Headlines, National News
AboitizPower launched on September 8 its new brand for clean and renewable power, Cleanergy. The move is in response to the call to sustain earth’s resource and environment.
Cleanergy is the company’s concrete solution to promote clean and renewable energy from sources that are sustainable and cleaner compared to traditional energy sources.
Aboitiz noted that the company is guided by three responsibilities which are to provide power, provide it at the most competitive pricing, and ensure the least possible effect to the environment.
Aboitiz is not afraid to experience a decrease in sales as they teach their consumers how to save power. Instead, they expect a bigger reward on their part for providing the consumers better choices. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Sep 10, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines, National News
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is scheduled to meet Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) who is expected to brief her on the progress of the climate change negotiations for a new climate change protocol.
With only three months to go, world leaders from more than 180 nations will forge an agreement that will contain what may be mankind’s largest challenge in the 21st century–a new global treaty on climate change.
The United Nations climate-change conference is scheduled to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. A potential successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, it will attempt to hammer out a new international treaty to curb greenhouse-gas emissions,.
The Philippines had earlier submitted a position paper asking industrialized countries to cut their CO2 emissions by more than 30 percent to 40 percent from 2013 to 2017 and by more than 50 percent from 2018 to 2022, using the 1990 levels as jump off point.
The Kyoto protocol, which took effect on February 16, 2005, is an international agreement that sets a target reduction of GHG emissions for 37 industrialized countries and European communities from 2008 to 2012. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Sep 10, 2009 | Election 2010, Headlines, National News
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) hailed the decision of the Supreme Court ruling on poll automation. The SC has junked the petition filed by the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) for the nullification of the P7.2-billion project to automate the May 2010 elections.
Comelec Chairman Jose Melo said that with the ruling of the High Court, the poll body will continue implementing the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines that will be used in next year’s polls. The machines will be supplied by the consortium of Total Information Management Corp. (TIM)-Smartmatic, which was declared the winning bidder last July 10 by the Comelec. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Sep 10, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is requiring its pensioners to renew their active status as GSIS pensioners every year, anytime during their birth month, to ensure the continuous receipt of their monthly pension. Should they fail to do so, their monthly pension will be suspended and their pension will resume only after they have complied.
To renew their active status, pensioners must go to the nearest GSIS servicing office or the nearest government establishment installed with a GSIS Wireless Automated Processing System kiosk or G-W@PS kiosk on their birth month. (GSIS)
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by anyajulia | Sep 10, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The Government Service Insurance System – Systems Technology Institute (GSIS-STI) grants has given this first semester of SY 2009-2010 more than P500, 000 in partial scholarship grants to 184 students semester. It is a joint project of (GSIS) and leading ICT-enhanced provider STI.
The tie-up offers a 20-percent scholarship grant in tuition and laboratory fees to all qualified relatives of GSIS members and pensioners if they enroll as incoming freshmen in any STI campus nationwide. The same educational benefit is also offered to all GSIS members.
To avail of the partial scholarship grant, GSIS members and qualified relatives need to present to STI the GSIS eCard Plus, subject to verification.
In addition, scholars should not obtain a failing grade or absence without official leave (AWOL) in any subject; must not be dismissed, warned or held on probation due to scholastic delinquency; should not have any disciplinary offense, and must take a full load course for each semester as prescribed in the STI curriculum, excluding the National Service Training Program.
Of the 184 students that availed of GSIS-STI Grants, 51 enrolled in various STI College campuses in Metro Manila, 27 in Northern Luzon, 37 in Southern Luzon, 26 in Visayas, and 43 in Mindanao. (GSIS)
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