Sustainable Development – Malaysia
Malaysia submits three recommendations to advance global collaboration under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
- This is all well and good, but how will it convert to “practical efforts” to be taken to ensure that Government Departments and Private Businesses keep sustainability in mind while they go about their everyday business?
- With decentralized goals and initiatives, altered strategies, and even new laws, the moment to act is now.
- Since the threat of climate change chaos is actual and present, future policies should place a high priority on sustainability.
- There is no short fix; it calls for strategic planning and long-term thinking with “future generations” at the forefront.
Are the government ministers in place today qualified and fit to handle the issues at hand?
- Voters for the GE15 should keep these things in mind when casting their ballots!
- How well-informed do business sectors and government employees believe they are about climate change, sustainability, and enabling ideas like ESG?
The press story that is given here is “high level” or macro level, and it might not have much of an impact on numerous organisations, millions of employees of private companies, and thousands of civil personnel. Numerous policies have stalled due to frequent changes in government, persistent intraparty squabbling, and the existing makeup and cabinet structure. Furthermore, there has been a lack of communication about how the government would deal with climate change inside its own ministries, as well as about how they will provide services and make purchases and how they will give “understandable” guidance to the private sector.
In all of its components, the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) concept aids in addressing the practise of sustainability. What ideas will Malaysia’s government use to guarantee that sustainability is taken into account in practice?
It would be advisable for Malaysia’s government to be more open about the efforts it intends to take to address sustainability within its own Departments and to encourage private businesses to take the necessary actions to increase awareness, highlight the urgency, and show their actions. How knowledgeable about sustainability, climate change, and what needs to be done in ministerial departments to make a difference in lowering carbon emissions and enticing the private sector to do the same are government ministers and their top civil servants across all ministries? This subject is an excellent illustration of how government departmental KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), which would hold ministers and their officers accountable, may be used to show tax payers and voting citizens how well government departments are performing.
