Green Plus Issu 14

Resilient Cities Asia — Pacific 2016 Congress
By MOHD HAFIZAM MUSTAFFA
OPERATION MANAGER
MELAKA GREEN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
In overdrive
M E L A K A
IPERBADANAN TE KNOLOGI H
JAU
Melaka GreenTech Corp oversees and monitors State’s green agenda efforts
SINCE 2010, Melaka established
a vision to become a green
technology city State. It was
inspired by the announcement
by Prime Minister Dato’
Seri Najib Abdul Razak, who
pledged during the United Nation Framework
for Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference
of Parties (COP) 15 in Copenhagen, Denmark
in 2009 to reduce Malaysia’s carbon intensity
per Growth Domestic Product (GDP) at 40
per cent by year 2020.
Then in 2011, Melaka produced the
Green Technology City State Blueprint. The
indicators listed were recommended by the
Urban Environmental Accords (UEA) to guide
the way we build and maintain our city streets,
sewers, building infrastructure, parks and green
spaces.
Melaka established the Green Technology
Council in 2010 and the Melaka Green
Technology Corporation in 2013 to oversees
Datuk Kamarudin Md Shah,
CEO Melaka Green Technology Corporation
green vision.
In the Melaka Green City State Blueprint,
the third objective is to upgrade its sustainable
State status through the application of green
technology and green approaches. Based
on the Urban Environmental Accords, 121
indicators from 21 specific actions or subsectors
are embedded in policies and strategies
of the State government to ensure the objective
to become a green city State can be achieved
in the areas of energy, water, waste reduction,
environmental health, urban design, urban
nature and transportation.
Apart of that, In April 2013, Melaka was
chosen as a model city for Malaysia, Songhkla
for Thailand and Medan for Indonesia, to
be under the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand
Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) Green City
Initiatives. This would be the green catalyst
before all the 32 states and provinces cities
duplicated the action which will cover almost
80 million population.
GREEN CITY ACTION PLAN (GCAP)
The Melaka Green City Action Plan
city initiatives to educate public about climate
change, global warming, green technology
and green practices. With the collaboration of
centre for IMT-GT Sub-regional Cooperation
and Asian Development Bank, the Green City
Action Plan (GCAP) was established.
There are six main areas in GCAP, such as:
i. Water management
ii. Energy efficiency and renewable
iii. Green transportation
iv. Zero waste
v. Cultural heritage and tourism
vi. And finally, urban forestry and
agriculture
The GCAP provides a clear path towards
a comprehensive approach that brings together
individual actions that have already started, and
provides clear direction on what needed to be
done in the future.
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Greenplus TM MARCH 2016