In response to increased demand for green building in Malaysia and a national desire to protect the environment, Malaysia has created the Green Building Index, a countrywide standard for sustainable construction. Compiled in 2008, the Green Building Index (GBI) helps developers, construction companies and investors focus in on the most…

A fuel subsidy program for the Malaysian fishing sector may encourage overfishing throughout the country, worries WWF-Malaysia’s Head of Conservation for Sabah, Bernard Tai. The sentiment was brought forward at a July seminar entitled “WWF-Malaysia Seminar: Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity Conservation in Sabah.” It was by-and-large a conversation about…

A volunteer-based tourism company called Ecoteer allows travellers to experience and protect nature simultaneously through restorative ecotourism in Malaysia. Ecotourism is one of the Malaysia’s biggest tourist attractions. Characterized by ancient rainforests, beautiful beaches and reefs, spectacular natural formations and unparalleled biodiversity, Malaysia is a hotspot for tourists seeking to…

Sustainable development in Malaysia has been a national focal point for decades. Ever since the forward-thinking Vision 2020 was drafted by Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad in 1991, Malaysia’s governments, businesses and citizens have cherished the thought of the clean, green, fully-developed and unified nation it proposed. Through generous green…

The annual International GreenTech and Eco Products Exhibition and Conference Malaysia (IGEM) will be held in Kuala Lumpur this year, from September 9th to 12th, 2015. In light of the rapidly approaching event, we felt that this would be a good time to review some of Malaysia’s green technology initiatives;…

Mega First Corporation Berhad, a Malaysian conglomerate operating mainly in property development and power generation, is building a hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River. The proposed Don Sahong dam has been met with stiff opposition and would ruin countless human and animal lives if constructed, but plans for it and…

VADS, one of Malaysia’s ten biggest corporations, has launched and been profiting from a shining example of successful corporate social responsibility, or CSR, in Malaysia. VADS (which stands for Visual Arts Data Service), is an enormous Malaysian business providing outsourcing services to companies all over the globe. As part of…

Malaysia – which did not have a solar industry before 2007 – became the world’s fourth-largest producer of solar cells in 2014, topped only by China, Taiwan and Japan. Much of this growth is thanks to an influx of large international corporations who, thanks to Malaysia’s attractive green technology incentives…

A massively unpopular and environmentally devastating project involving the construction of 12 mega hydroelectric dams in Sarawak, Eastern Malaysia may not come to completion after all. Originally slated to produce 7,000 MW of electricity by 2020 – and flood over 2,000 square kilometers of ancient rainforest while displacing tens of…

Malaysia’s government is strongly backing nationwide growth and development of green technology by proposing generous tax incentives surrounding that business sector. Malaysia’s 2014 budget introduced two big incentives for investments and expenditures in green technology. The first is a green investment tax allowance (GITA) of up to 100 percent on…

The sixth in a series of green technology exhibitions in Malaysia will push the country towards its goal of becoming a regional green technology hub by attracting a predicted 50,000 investors and 400 exhibitors from over 20 countries across the world. The Malaysian exhibitions have generated RM6 billion ($1.4 billion…