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Youth and Climate Change in Malaysia
Writers: Saef Wan, Syaqil Suhaimi, Robiatul Saad, Robin Goon. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), countries around the world need to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 Celsius to fall within the ‘safe zone’ of climate change and...
read moreIs ASEAN Critical to its Regional Climate Actions?
Despite many sceptics who thought the wide divergence of views among its members would pose difficulties, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has now been celebrated as an economic powerhouse, known as the major global hub of manufacturing and trade...
read moreOf COVID-19, Oil Price Crash, and Climate Change
The arrival of the new decade has presented itself in a daunting way and 2020 has been nothing but tragedies. The coronavirus pandemic has swept across the globe and infected millions with hundreds of thousands of mortalities. Oil price crashed and WTI crude has...
read moreMigration Issue: Why the Global Community Needs to Care About Climate Change?
1.0 What is Climate Migration? Climate migration is the result of climate change effects causing population movements away from increasingly unviable or uninhabitable places. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted it as one of the greatest...
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Study Session #3 – How Climate-Sensitive are Malaysia’s Laws and Regulations?
The Malaysian Youth Delegation (MYD) organised its third study session this year on 11 July 2020, discussing climate mitigation and adaptation in Malaysia. The session was guided by Evelyn Teh, a Senior Researcher on Climate Change at the Third World Network (TWN)....
read moreThe Need for a Green Economic Recovery
To date, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread to every continent except Antarctica. More than a global health crisis, the pandemic also represents a daunting socio-economic crisis that will leave deep, long lasting social, economic and political effects in every country...
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