Sheraton Manila Bay Celebrate First Year Anniversary with Gourmet Bundles, Piso Staycation and more

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Sheraton Manila Bay offers amazing dining and stay deals for the whole month of October.

In celebration of Sheraton Manila Bay’s First Year Anniversary, Manila’s favorite gathering place invite loyal guests to share this milestone with us, at home or wherever they are, by availing these awesome takeaways and staycation deals until October 31, 2020.

Valid for stay from January 1 to June 30, 2021, avail of Sheraton Manila Bay at One Room Package by booking 2 consecutive suite night to get your third night at only ONE PESO. Relax and unwind in the spacious living area and well-appointed bedroom of our Junior Suite for only Php 10,500+++ room per night or Sheraton Suite at Php 17,000+++ room per night. Room Package includes suite accommodation for two, breakfast at the Pacific Lounge, high speed internet access, and access to swimming pool and fitness facilities. Booking period runs until October 31, 2020. For reservations, please call +632 5318 0788 or email reservations.manilabay@sheraton.com. Per DTI Fair Trade Permit No. FTEB-105637 Series of 2020.

Giving you even more reasons to celebrate this October is our anniversary Gourmet Bundles carefully curated by our seasoned culinary team for only Php 2,019 net good for sharing of 5-6 persons and served with 6pcs steamed rice. Take a pick among a selection of four epicurean set meal including Pinoy Salu-Salo which features pinoy favorites "Buchon" Pork Belly Roulade, Ensalada Filipina with Shrimp, Pancit Guisado, and Ube Cheesecake Brownies, Gourmet Feast which includes Pot Roast Beef, Classic Caesar Salad, Garlic Mashed Potato, and Fruity Revel Bars, Sobremesa which features Spanish Roasted Chicken, Greek Salad, Seafood Paella, and Crema Catalan, and ultimate best seller Pizza, Pasta & Wings which includes Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings, Ricotta, Spinach, & Mushroom Pizza, Seafood Pizza Supreme, and Pasta Puttanesca.

Complete your delectable spread or simply indulge your sweet tooth with our special Ube Salted Caramel Anniversary Cake made with decadent layers of Ube chiffon, Ube Halaya, salted caramel and cashew nuts topped with ube glaze, mango, macarons, and white chocolate. Available in small size at Php 650 net and large size for only Php 1,200 net.

To order please call our Gourmet Bundles and Ube Salted Caramel Cake, please call +632 5318 0788, 09175837294, 09175837326 or email sh.mnlsb.fnb@sheraton.com. 24 hours advance order is required. Diners shall arrange pick-up with their courier of choice. Cash and credit card payments are accepted. The hotel will strictly implement a No Mask, No Pick-up Policy and has designated a pick-up point at the hotel main entrance canopy area to ensure social distancing measure are followed and health and safety precautions are met. For a full listing of gourmet takeaways menu, please visit http://bit.ly/ccmnlsb

Sheraton Manila Bay is located at M. Adriatico cor. Gen. Malvar Streets, Malate, Manila. Like us on Facebook and Instagram @sheratonmanilabay and Twitter at @sheratonmnlbay

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NGOs and businesses call for UN treaty on plastic pollution

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A new report by WWF, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Boston Consulting Group finds that a new international treaty on plastic pollution will benefit both the environment and business, and would complement existing initiatives –- accelerating global efforts to tackle the eradication of plastic pollution.

Twenty nine major businesses have signed a manifesto calling for a global treaty and others are being urged to join.

A resolution to start negotiations on a treaty is expected to be tabled at an upcoming UN conference, with businesses and NGOs agreeing that “there is no time to waste”.

WWF, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Boston Consulting Group are recommending a binding international treaty to address plastic pollution, and calls on UN member states to urgently start negotiations.

Major businesses issued a call today for a UN treaty on plastic pollution to address the fragmented landscape of regulation and complement existing voluntary measures, supporting the existing call from leading NGOs including WWF and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation for this important international agreement.

In a joint report, The Business Case for a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution, WWF, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Boston Consulting Group conclude that despite a doubling of voluntary initiatives and national regulations over the last five years, plastic waste continues to leak into the environment at alarming rates – with more than 11 million tonnes of plastic flowing into our oceans each year. There is an urgent need to amplify current efforts through a more coordinated and ambitious approach.

The report sets out the opportunity for a new global UN treaty on plastic pollution to significantly accelerate progress towards a circular economy for plastics. Through the establishment of a common structure it would set a clear direction and conditions, giving governments and businesses the impetus to move forward more decisively. The report’s authors argue that a global agreement setting out global goals and binding targets, together with national action plans and consistent measurement is needed to harmonise policy efforts, enhance investment planning, stimulate innovation and coordinate infrastructure development. While voluntary initiatives can deliver change among market leaders, an international binding approach is needed to deliver the necessary industry scale change.

Twenty nine major global companies, including Amcor, Borealis, Danone, H&M, Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Tesco, The Coca-Cola Company, Unilever and Woolworths, have backed the call through a business manifesto calling for a UN treaty. The manifesto urges governments to negotiate and agree on a new global agreement on plastic pollution, saying “there is no time to waste”. This is the first collective corporate action calling on governments to adopt a treaty on plastic pollution.

“Over the last few years we have seen growing public demand for action on plastic pollution, with some governments and industries starting to implement voluntary measures on this issue, but this needs better coordination, and the international impetus and recognition that a global treaty would generate. While companies have a clear responsibility to address plastic pollution within their own supply chains wider systemic change is vital. The plastic pollution crisis was created in a single lifetime and can be ended in a single decade. But only if we act now, together,” said Cristianne Close, Head of the Markets Practice of WWF International.

A resolution to start negotiations on such a treaty is expected to be tabled at the upcoming 5th Session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA5). This comes after the Assembly previously has recognised plastic pollution as a global problem and a 2017 UNEA mandated examination concluded that the existing international legal framework governing plastic pollution is fragmented and ineffective. Both the report and business manifesto stress the urgent need to develop and adopt a new global treaty on plastic pollution as soon as possible.

“We have seen important steps taken by businesses and governments in addressing plastic pollution over recent years. More than 500 organisations have signed the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, setting clear targets to achieve a circular economy for plastic in which it never becomes waste or pollution. But voluntary initiatives alone are not enough to solve plastic pollution and we believe governments and policymakers have a vital role to play. A binding global agreement that builds on the vision of a circular economy for plastic can ensure a unified international response to plastic pollution that matches the scale of the problem,” said Dame Ellen MacArthur, founder and chair of Trustees of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

The business manifesto calling for a new treaty is open to new signatories at www.plasticpollutiontreaty.org. WWF, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and BCG are urging more companies to join the call.

“For businesses, a global agreement could alleviate operational complexity, simplify reporting, and critically unlock investment across the plastic value chain” said Jesper Nielsen, Leader of Social Impact & Sustainability Practice in Western Europe, Africa & South America, Boston Consulting Group.

Alongside almost 2 million people also calling for a treaty, more than two-thirds of the UN member states, from across the world, have officially declared that they are open to considering the option of a new global agreement, including African, Baltic, Caribbean, Nordic and Pacific states, as well as the European Union.

Web Summit moves RISE conference online for 2021

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RISE conference, “Asia’s largest tech gathering” according to CNBC, will now go ahead online on March 25, 2021, given the uncertainty facing a large number of public events around the world during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Web Summit’s Asian event will host 5,000 founders, partners and speakers on its proprietary online conference platform that is regarded as “the stunning future of tech conferences”, according to Digital Trends.

Event organisers also announced last week that its flagship event, Web Summit, will take place fully online in December and will host 100,000 people. This comes after the success of its first online event, Collision from Home, which welcomed 32,000+ people online from over 140 countries last June.

“For us, moving our events online is easy. It’s always been the case that we are maybe the only large event company that builds our own software. For years now a team of 50+ engineers, product managers and designers have built software to make our events a lot more productive.” - said Paddy Cosgrave, co-founder and CEO of RISE conference and Web Summit.

“Everything that we’re building towards is all about enabling people to, over the three days, network with each other – making it very efficient and helping the right people” - he continued.

Tickets for RISE 2021 are now on sale, as are partner and startup packages.