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Breaking down Malaysia’s climate commitments
Breaking down Malaysia’s climate commitments Written by: Dhaartshini, Lim Kah Yau, Nat Zhai, Robin Goon Malaysia updated its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in August, stating its intention to unconditionally reduce economy-wide carbon intensity (against...
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Water and Climate Change Youth Survey Report: Article #1
Water and Climate Change Youth Survey Report: Article #1Written by: Rahim Ismail and Zhee Qi. With contributions from Farisah, Felix Culas, Janak Preet Kaur, Jasreena Kaur, and Reza Abedi. In August 2020, the Malaysia Prime Minister’s Office launched a research study...
read moreMYD Position Statement on the Climate Ambition Summit 2020
Written By: Sonia Kiew, Syaqil Suhaimi & Reza Abedi On December 12th, the United Nations, the United Kingdom and France co-convened the 2020 Climate Ambition Summit in partnership with Chile and Italy, which gathered 75 government, business and civil society...
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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...
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