Business has a critical role to play in accelerating projects and investments that support climate, nature and people. While the risks of inaction are significant and well documented, the benefits to both business security and growth are very compelling.To unlock investment and ensure credible, high-quality projects receive funding, there must be a common understanding of…
International observers of biodiversity governance watch very keenly any action by the United States government. Remember the phrase, “when America sneezes, the world catches a cold”. At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, for example, the world community watched in total exasperation when the late president George H.W. Bush personally declined to…
How do we get 9.7 billion people to live well and within the boundaries of the planet 30 years from now? Considering that we are at 7.8 billion people now and are already struggling on many fronts, this question should trigger some anxiety. The current level of consumption in developed economies is made possible through…
SINCE 1990, the Earth has lost 420 million hectares of forests to land conversion for agriculture, urbanisation, mining and industry. Forested areas equal to the combined land territories of India and Egypt were lost in the span of a single generation. It happens gradually, such devastation seldom if ever registers on the public radar in…
The importance of environmental diplomacy was underscored by Environment and Water Ministry Deputy Secretary-General Dr K. Nagulendran in a recent interview with the Global Environment Facility’s newsletter. He listed three of Malaysia’s most pressing environmental concerns: First, as a fast-developing country, there is a need to balance development with sound environmental stewardship — a fragile…
BCSD Malaysia has partnered with LEARNTech Asia in organising a webinar titled Access to Jobs – Sustainability. As many Asian countries are committed to a more sustainable recovery and to a greener economy, new opportunities for ‘green jobs’ are becoming available. The purpose of this webinar is to offer an overview of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), job options…