PRESIDENTIAL Adviser on Poverty Alleviation Larry Gadon expressed delight over the appointment of former senator Manny Pacquiao as the new lead convenor of the National Anti-Poverty Commission.
His appointment is very timely now that the administration is pushing for further reduction of poverty incidence and the NAPC with the right direction could help more to achieve the poverty reduction efforts, Gadon said.
“He is exactly the right person for the position as he has a sincere compassion for the less fortunate,” the Palace official said.
Commissioning CavSU solar power system
The presidential adviser has led the commissioning of the solar power system of the Cavite State University for its main campus and its 13 other campuses located all over the province.
Maria Agnes Nuestro, CavSU president, expressed gratitude to Gadon for his effort to energize the state university through the solar power system, among others.
Gadon told Good Riddance that the solar power system would result in millions of pesos savings which can be used for CavSU’s other primary education purposes.
” The university is also expected to earn from the excess electricity uploaded to the grid which will boost power supply for households and industries.”
The university will also earn from the monetized carbon credits, said Gadon who added that the project he initiated was ‘no cost’ to the government as it was carried out under a private partnership arrangement.
The project would also contribute to the Philippines’ compliance to the Paris Agreement of the United Nations targeting a 35 percent mix use of alternative energy by the year 2030.
It is also part of compliance to the Kyoto Protocol reducing carbon emissions by 2030, according to the Palace official.
The anti-poverty presidential adviser explained that when the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took over in 2022, the mix-use ratio was only at 6 percent.
“With a wider and more intensive alternative energy program of the Marcos administration, the compliance now stands at 22 percent and is moving forward,” he pointed out.
