PETALING JAYA. Malaysia - Some 181 parties including Malaysia, have sent
INDCs to the UN for the COP21(UN Climate Change Conference) talks from Nov 30
to Dec 11.
Malaysia is the second last country in Asean to send its Intended
Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)
to the UN. Brunei has yet to do so.
Malaysia has sent its
climate change action plan to the United Nations for the UN Climate Change
Conference (COP21) in Paris.
In a document hosted on a UN website, the plan said Malaysia
planned to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 45% by 2030.
"This consist(s) of 35% on an unconditional basis and a
further 10% is condition upon receipt of climate finance, technology transfer
and capacity building from developed countries," it read on Saturday.
These details were laid out in an INDC paper, which the UN
acknowledged in a Nov 27 statement.
- The document can be viewed on the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change website (http://newsroom.unfccc.int/).
- The conference aims to draft a binding global agreement on how to take care of climate change.
- United Nations data showed that Malaysia was 26th worldwide in 2012 when it came to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fuel combustion.
- It contributed to 0.62% of global emissions then, with the average Malaysian contributing 6.7 metric tons of CO2 each year.
Malaysia's INDC document said that surface mean temperature
here went up by 0.14 to 0.25 Celsius every 10 years.
It added that the Government spent some RM51bil under the
10th Malaysia Plan (2011-2015) to "enhance resilience" against
climate change.
One effect of climate change in Malaysia, The Star reported
earlier, was that sea levels in some parts here might rise by 1m
by 2100.
by 2100.
Source: The Star
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