Category: Environment EN

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 The 12 Malaysia Plan (12MP) has emphasised ‘advancing sustainability’ as an important thrust in the country’s development trajectory, including in advancing a circular economy concept, going low carbon and increasing resilience against climate change and disasters. These are all needed aspirations for a much greener way forward in our economic recovery. However, realising them will, as a...

Essay by Kuganesh Ravientheran (CAP Intern) The simple truth is the human race will not survive, and the Earth’s ecosystem will be devastated if we don’t have pollinators. Thus, pollination is not just a fascinating history. It is an essential function of every piece of the world’s ecological cycle. Three-fourths of the world’s flowering and 35% of other crops reproduce and can grow via...

At a public webinar held on climate change in conjunction with Malaysia Day on 16 Sept. hosted by the Ministry of Environment and Water (KASA), a lot of good information on climate change that Malaysians needed to know was provided. Leading the panel of speakers was the Secretary-General (SG) of the Ministry, Dato’ Seri Ir. Dr. Zaini Ujang. While most of the information presented were...

“What is America's largest export, most prodigious product and greatest legacy -- the biggest thing we make? Our trash. Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery...

Our rivers are dying due to human activities. Ten days ago there was water supply disruption to 463 areas in Selangor due to pollution in Sungai Semenyih. Water cuts have become endemic in Selangor despite millions of ringgit spent on reports by experts on improving water resource and water delivery services governance and management. The government needs to implement the recommendations made in...

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) welcomes the government’s 100 Million Tree-Planting Campaign 2021-2025 as a move to green the country but it has to ensure that the task should not be given to any private companies in handling it. The campaign should empower the people to get involved in the planting under the supervision of the Forestry Department. In this way much money can be saved...

Only a few hours ago, SAM sadly learnt that the Selangor state government has decided to continue with its proposal to degazette the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR) to make way for commercial development on what is now one of the last remaining peat forests in the south of Selangor. We are extremely outraged by this. At a time when we are facing a climate crisis, the Selangor...

  Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) refers to letter of the British High Commissioner to Malaysia, H.E Charles Hay (published on 24 Aug) entitled “Working together on climate crisis”. We agree with the ambassador that governments “can only rise to the challenge of the climate crisis by working together and through commitment to a genuine global transformation”. However, having been...

In 2019, the sales value of bottled water in Malaysia was approximately RM698.45 mil, meaning that Malaysians spent that enormous sum that year for an advertised promise of safer, purer and healthier water. But in reality plastic bottled water may not be safer, purer or healthier – it can be toxic, contaminated and harmful, and is a huge threat to the environment. Hundreds of recalls of...