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CEMEX Philippines Hosts Landmark Sustainability Forum
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Last July 21, 2010, CEMEX Philippines hosted a landmark event that gathered leaders, visionaries and practitioners from different areas and industries. “Gathering Hands: Sustainability at Work” was designed to be a special forum on sustainability, and as the forum progressed it was clear that sustainability held many definitions across its various applications in multiple industries and sectors of society.
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Beyond mere definitions, the forum also proved to be an engaging exchange of new ideas and insights—particularly because of the diversity of the presenters and their backgrounds who talked their respective companies’ best practices in the areas of competitiveness, impact reduction and stakeholder outreach.
Presentors included Sebastian Lacon, First Vice President and Chief Reputation Officer of Aboitiz Equity Ventures who talked on renewable energy; Synergeia Foundation COO Milwida Martin Guevarra, who discussed corporate
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competitiveness in the broad context of corporate sustainability; TSPI Development Corporation Executive Director Ruben de Lara discussed microfinance from his valuable perspective; Edgar Chua, country chairman of the Shell Companies in the Philippines, Guam, Palau and Saipan who drew upon his deep and wide experience in the energy company and delivered valuable lessons and observations.
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A talk from June Alvarez, Executive Director of the Philippine Center for Environmental Protaction and Sustainable Development, Inc. (PCEPSDI) about their advocacy of corporate environmentalism; Evangeline Miclat of conservation international, drew from her scientific background and rich management experience across the government, academic and NGO sectors to present a vivid picture of the current state of our country’s coral reefs; and Edmond Maceda, Chief Sustainability Officer of Ayala Land, who has had almost 20 years of experience as an environmental professional outlined how the real estate giant has implemented a sustainability program that involves all its business units and departments.
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