Malaysia is in the Top 10– and for the RIGHT reasons too!
Believe it or not, we’ve finally made a Top 10 list that we can be proud of. We even managed to beat countries that are usually considered more advanced than us and this in an area that many of us would have thought was a lost cause in this country – Environmental Protection.
Yes, Ladies & Gentlemen – you may stop staring in disbelief now – Malaysia is ranked no. 9 in the ENTIRE world in the 2006 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), outranking the likes of the US, Switzerland & Australia.
And in case you think this ranking is sponsored by yet another delusionary foreign billionaire, it was conducted by Yale & Columbia Universities in conjunction with the World Economic Forum and Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
The EPI is based on two environmental protection objectives – 1) reducing environmental stresses on human health & 2) promoting ecosystem vitality & sound natural resource management. Countries are ranked based on 16 indicators tracked in 6 policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Quality, Water Resources, Productive Natural Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, and Sustainable Energy.
All this despite the rape of Bakun and the destruction of Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam – not bad at all. Well done Malaysia.
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posted by hew @ 5:05 pm
2 Comments:
Not to be "unpatriotic" but as you wrote so yourself, it tracks policy categories. Malaysia has wonderful policies.
Unfortunately, it's the effective implementation of these policies that we are severely lacking.
oh actually according to the report, they did track results vis-a-vis policy goals so they have consciously made it a point to make this into a concrete set of metrics for environmental matters.
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