Channeling Al Gore

Philippine's eco-hero president Arroyo calls for global warming summit

MANILA, Philippines -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called for a summit to discuss ways to address the problem of global warming and climate change, her adviser on the matter said Wednesday.

The Carbon Cutting Congress versus Climate Change (CCC vs CC) will gather 350 stakeholders in Malacañang on November 20, said Heherson Alvarez, Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change.

"Global warming and climate change perhaps is the most engaging and the most dangerous problem of the human community today," Alvarez told a news conference at the Palace.

"It's as much our problem because of our vulnerability. We are susceptible to the many dangers of global warming -- flooding and the ferocious storms…The President is concerned that this dangerous global development has an impact on food supply, and the vast issue of poverty," he added.

GMA going abroad again, this time to HK for Clinton Global Initiative

President Arroyo will leave for Hong Kong tomorrow night to attend the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Asia Meeting, less than a week after a trip to Latin America and the United States.
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The Hong Kong trip of the President would be her ninth for the year.

In January, the President went to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum and stopped by Dubai on the way back to Manila.

This was followed by a visit to Hong Kong last March; the United States in June; China last August for the Summer Olympics; New York in September; China in October; Chicago and New York in November; and Peru, Colombia and Los Angeles last month.