Al Gore to come to Manila to speak on climate change

SM Prime Holdings is bringing in former US Vice-President Al Gore to keynote a leadership conference where top Philippine leaders from the academe, business, government and nongovernment sectors will learn from the experience and expertise of global leaders. To be held at the SMX Convention Center at the SM Mall of Asia Complex on June 8, the lecture will have Gore present an Asian version of An Inconvenient Truth, a multimedia presentation on the threat of climate change and solutions to global warming and the subject of the movie of the same title that has won critical and box-office acclaim. A Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Gore has just published his latest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, which proposes measures to help solve the climate crisis. "We have always been committed to environmental preservation. Beyond our many environmental programs, we feel that we can further spread the advocacy by having more people learn about this global problem and how it impacts each and everyone of us," SM Prime Holdings President Hans Sy said in a statement. "This is why we are bringing in the world’s most influential authority on climate change. We want the urgency of his message to be heard by Filipino leaders, as well as by Filipinos in general," he added. — NPA, GMANews.TV