The final instalment of this two-part report outlines experts’ recommendations to help Sabah realise its carbon economy potential.
The biggest challenge facing Sabah’s carbon economy is shifting from the realm of discussion to the corridors of bureaucracy. Promises of billions of ringgit in potential returns will mean little without robust enforcement and an efficient administrative machinery.
Through a new policy framework, particularly the enforcement of the Sabah Climate Change and Carbon Governance Enactment 2025, the Sabah state government is beginning to draw a line under an era of green rhetoric that looks impressive on paper but delivers little in practice.