Blueprint for the development of low carbon society scenarios for Asian regions- case study of Iskandar Malaysia

Ho, Chin Siong; Matsuoka, Yuzuru; Chau, Loon Wai; Teh, Bor Tsong; Simson, Janice Jeevamalar; Gomi, Kei

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“…Moreover, the recent emergence of Green Growth policy discourses has been matched with public investment, for example through recent stimulus packages in countries such as South Korea and Malaysia, in green sectors. [56,57]. This is of course contrasted with alternaitve approaches in other countries, where a diluted Green agenda has seen less signifcant green investment and indeed a relaxation of environmental regulation, for example in China [58,59], where anlaysis rightly finds shortfalls in the greenign fo the economy [60].…”

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Managing the transition to critical green growth: The ‘Green Growth State’

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Smith

Sarkis

2014

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Managing the transition to critical green growth: The ‘Green Growth State’

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2014

Futures

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“…This requires consideration of the decision makers' needs much earlier in the assessment process. The expanding role of public, private and nongovernmental organizations in the assessment process allows an intrinsic connection between environmental sustainability and equity, and enables the promotion of sustainability goals through this engagement (Simson 2012;Ho et al 2013). The process of environmental assessment often has difficulty taking account of the socioeconomic impacts of development activities and issues associated with, for example, biodiversity, human health and cultural norms.…”

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“…The SDGs offer a framework for such a holistic approach to identifying innovative ways and means for advancing human well-being and health together with environmental stewardship (Dye 2018). This framework requires interdisciplinary as well as multidisciplinary scientific research and assessments to be the norm; for the urgency of short-term needs and actions to be balanced strategically with the long-term risks in resource planning and allocation; and for more collaborative and participatory approaches to be promoted, to engage governments, businesses and citizens to reconsider their roles, responsibilities and contributions to the implementation of multilateral environmental agreements (Simson 2012;Ho et al 2013). Stakeholder engagement could, for example, be an integral part of business development to bring the three aspects of sustainability -environment, society and economy -to the heart of societal value creation.…”

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Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People

2019

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Global assessments have to shift the focus from what is happening and what could be done, to how trends and trajectories in development can be changed (well established). The use of top-down and bottom-up methods in Part C of GEO-6-Outlooks and Pathways to a Healthy Planet for Healthy People is intended to provide science-based information for this purpose. The combined quantitative scenarios and participatory approaches also offer great potential to be more responsive to meeting the sector-and region-specific information required by decision makers. Therefore, the GEO-6 outlook analysis/assessment use: (1) model-based scenario analysis (generally referred to as the top-down approach); (2) information and knowledge from past and present initiatives, opportunities and trends (i.e. seeds of change); and (3) information resulting from integrative decision-making and participatory activities that are usually conducted at the local to regional levels (generally referred to as bottomup approaches). This will ensure greater engagement of stakeholders in knowledge development and dissemination, and implementation of resulting policies and practices in a timely manner for greater success {19.2, 19.3}. For environmental assessments to be useful to decision makers, they should account for the interactions, interdependencies and co-evolutionary pathways of human-Earth systems in proposed policy options and scientific and technological solutions-including the direct effects and the co-benefits and/or trade-offs. (established, but incomplete). Global Environmental Assessments generally rely on modelbased quantitative scenarios. While these models capture many important linkages, the social dimension is not very well represented. Moreover, it is difficult in global assessments to capture important details that are pertinent for local-level decision-making. A systemic and integrated approach is needed in scientifically based environmental assessments and future outlooks, in support of policy and investment decisions, to account for the highly complex, interdependent and continuously changing factors in assessing the human-Earth system changes {19.1}. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at www.cambridge.org/core "The sixth Global Environment Outlook is an essential checkup for our planet. Like any good medical examination, there is a clear prognosis of what will happen if we continue with business as usual and a set of recommended actions to put things right. GEO-6 details both the perils of delaying action and the opportunities that exist to make sustainable development a reality."-António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

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“…Most of the socio-economic indicators and energy balance table for Iskandar Malaysia are obtained from official and published statistics and secondary sources. Assumptions are used where information for macroeconomic analysis is not available for the Iskandar Malaysia region (see Ho et al 2010).…”

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‘Science to Action’ of the Sustainable Low Carbon City-region

Chau

Teh

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Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate

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This paper outlines the lessons learnt through the multidisciplinary 'Science-to-Action' approach to formulating, mainstreaming and implementing the Low Carbon Society Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia 2025 (LCSBP-IM2025). Iskandar Malaysia (IM) is a rapidly developing urban region in southern Peninsular Malaysia that was institutionalised in 2006 with a view to spurring Malaysia's economic growth up to 2025. In pursuing rapid economic growth to become a developed, high-income nation by 2020, Malaysia is conscious of its global responsibility in environmental protection and global climate change mitigation, hence the country's commitment to reducing its carbon emission intensity of GDP by up to 40 % by 2020 based on the 2005 level. Being a premier economic region in Malaysia, IM seeks to develop a low carbon society (LCS) and lead the way to cutting its carbon emission intensity by up to 58 % by 2025 based on the 2005 level through the implementation of the LCSBP-IM2025. The LCSBP-IM2025 is the outcome of an internationally funded joint research under the SATREPS programme that brings together Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kyoto University, Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Okayama University and the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA), in a unique 'academia-policymaker' partnership, towards crafting an LCS pathway to guide and sustainably manage the projected rapid development in IM up to 2025. To that end, a multidisciplinary research team that comprises the above research institutions and IRDA, led by UTM, has been set up. A methodology has

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Blueprint for the development of low carbon society scenarios for Asian regions- case study of Iskandar Malaysia

Cited by 10 publications

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Managing the transition to critical green growth: The ‘Green Growth State’

Managing the transition to critical green growth: The ‘Green Growth State’

Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People

‘Science to Action’ of the Sustainable Low Carbon City-region

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