Green Plus Issu 14

Resilient Cities Asia — Pacific 2016 Congress
industrial sector (23.1%), followed by the
commercial & institutional sector (9.0%).
Residential sector contributes to 3.9% and
waste contributes to 0.8% of Melaka’s GHG
emission.
The preparation of the baseline greenhouse
gas (GHG) emission inventory for Melaka will
help to streamline and strengthen the green
city action plan (GCAP) by incorporating
climate change, which is a crucial issue for our
country and the world at this moment and in
the future.
NATIONAL SMART COMMUNITY
PROGRAM – TO DELIVER GCAP
Melaka is also part of the special program under
the smart community program at national level
to implement the GCAP.
The Melaka government through the
Melaka Green Technology Corporation,
with assistance from Malaysian Industry-
Government Group for High Technology
(MIGHT), Prime Minister’s Department
forwarded a ‘Sustainable Cities’ Green Project
Proposal in Melaka to the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) through the Ministry for
Natural Resources and Environment and
the United Nations Industrial Development
Organisation (UNIDO).
Melaka is the first ideal town under the
National ‘Smart Communities’ Programme
which was selected in the Global Innovation
and Science Council Meeting, chaired by the
Prime Minister, where all council resolutions
would be carried out by MIGHT as the working
committee. By being the ideal town, Melaka
will be a source of reference for MIGHT to set
development in other towns in Malaysia in the
11th Malaysia Plan (RMK-11).
The Sustainable Cities Programme allocated
year period at the initial stage involving 23
towns in 11 developing countries namely Brazil,
China, Ivory Coast, India, Malaysia, Mexico,
Paraguay, Peru, Senegal, South Africa and
Vietnam. Melaka is among the towns chosen
for the implementation of the green initiative.
This programme is expected to establish strong
networking between the towns which will act
as sustainable town planning ambassadors with
GREEN HIGHLIGHTS
Some other ongoing green projects already
started and implemented in Melaka such as:
a. Melaka river rehabilitation and beautification
project – we are transforming from a smelly river
to tourist destination, it is going to be the San
Antonio, Texas waterway in Asia.
b. The Hang Tuah Jaya Green City – a new
township that focuses on green development norms.
c. Melaka World Solar Valley – a new township
that focuses on green and solar technology
development
d. We also have 2 massive solar farms in Melaka
with the total capacity of 13 Megawatt.
e. Electric buses – we are planning to convert
our diesel buses to electric buses in our city and
targeting 40 electric buses to be running in our
neighborhood this year.
f. Melaka Green Seal – we also embarking
on our own green rating tools for residential and
non-residential buildings. The provisions of the
Melaka Green Seal are in embedded in our local
council processes, starting from build permission
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Greenplus TM MARCH 2016