February 6, 2014
06 February 2014 – The Philippines took center stage at the 2014 ThomasLloyd Clean Tech Congress Europe, held at the Frankfurt Convention Center on January 24. This year’s edition, themed “Meet Asia. Meet Renewable Energy’s Future,” brought together more than a thousand European investors and technology companies to discuss emerging business and investment opportunities in renewable energy infrastructure in Asia.
Owing to its strong partnership with Bronzeoak Philippines Inc., the Stuttgart-headquartered ThomasLloyd Group identified the Philippines as the conference’s focus country. ThomasLloyd […]
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January 31, 2014
Amid increasing demands upon the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in the investigation of high profile and complex cases, Senator Loren Legarda today stressed the need to modernize and reorganize the agency to ensure that it continues to effectively carry out its mandate.
“Human trafficking, cyber pornography, drug cartels, rice smuggling—these are but a few of the complex cases under the NBI. Justice Secretary Leila De Lima admitted that the lack of resources impedes the NBI’s work to effectively implement the […]
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January 26, 2014
Former US president Bill Clinton has called for global investment in renewable energy and changes to the “inequality” of current financing mechanisms in the energy sector.
At the ThomasLloyd Clean Tech Congress Europe in Frankfurt last week, Clinton highlighted long-term finance options is “what we do with traditional energy and coal fire power plants”, whereas currently investors and providers of solar and wind have to provide “all the money upfront”.
Clinton argued that no one has “explained to people adequately” that there […]
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January 26, 2014
Senator Loren Legarda today renewed her call for more investments in renewable energy as part of a long-term solution to the growing power needs of the country and to mitigate the effects of environmental degradation and climate change.
Legarda, the United Nations Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, made the call at the Clean Technology Congress 2014 organized by ThomasLloyd in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
“The aftermath of Haiyan was an eye-opener for us Filipinos. The devastation […]
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January 25, 2014
Senator Loren Legarda today stressed on the need to lessen the necessity for disaster relief by making good use of lessons learned from past disasters to build a resilient future for Filipinos.
Legarda, who chairs the Senate Committee on Climate Change, said that as a country exposed to storms, the Philippines should now be typhoon-resilient at the very least.
“We should now be experts in preparing for typhoons. After all, we have already experienced Ondoy, Pepeng, Pablo and Sendong. Unfortunately, Yolanda happened […]
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