A number of climate change impacts could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C, or more. The implications of climate change for Malaysia in a world that warms by 1.5°C has to be comprehensively studied. Scientifically robust programmes should be initiated to document and report on the unavoidable damages of climate change and efforts to address them, including gaps in capacity. We have clever economists in the country whose talents have not been tapped to address the issue of climate change, we also have an Economic Affairs Ministry. The time has come for climate change to be viewed as an economic and development issue, to leap-frog the country into a high-income developed nation.

Source: The Star December 23, 2018 01:18 UTC