establishment of an Asian Low Carbon Society network. The Project consisted of 5 research groups, namely: (1) Scenario Integration and Land Use Planning, (2) Consensus Building and Education, (3) Energy System, (4) Solid Waste management and (5) Air Quality and Transport. “Low Carbon Society Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia 2025” is a written document that represents comprehensive climate change mitigation policies and detailed strategies to guide the development of Iskandar Malaysia towards “Strong and Sustainable Metropolis of International Standing”. The document is the product of ‘science-policy’ partnership, the partnership among afore mentioned Japanese research institutes, UTM and IRDA. The overall process began with the information gathering, analysis and contextual appraisal of current development, carbon emission and policy scenarios in IM. This allowed the setting of IM’s LCS goals and carbon emission reduction target in 2025. Stakeholder participation in the preparation of the document was a major activity through a series of Focus Group Discussions (FGD) and workshops where proposed actions, measures and programs were scrutinized and stakeholders’ opinions were collected and fed back into the policy formulation process. The blueprint incorporates various related national policies, and the other 24 Iskandar Malaysia Blueprints and Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP 1 & CDPii 5) in transforming IM into a low carbon metropolis. The blueprint discusses and provides complex technical details of carbon mitigation options with specific measures and programmes. It is aimed to guide the implementation of 12 low carbon society policy actions in Iskandar Malaysia through 281 programs that would bring a reduction of 58% of GHG emission intensity and a 40% emission reduction from 2025 BaU (business as usual) compared with 2005 as base year. Specifically for the low carbon education component, the Consensus Building and Education group was responsible in drafting Action 6 (Low Carbon Lifestyle) and Action 7 (Consensus Building & Community Engagement) of the blueprint. LCS Education is a measure under Action 6. The researchers first engaged with an officer from the Johor State Education Department (JPNJ) to bring the idea of low carbon education into schools in 2011. JPNJ was very keen to bring the new idea into schools. As a result, a focus group discussion was conducted among 33 selected principals and headmasters from the secondary and primary schools in the region of IM. They were introduced to the idea of LCS and were asked to share what measures that schools have taken and are willing to commit if LCS is to be implemented in schools in IM. The details of all the measures can be found in 6. In September 2012, a group of researchers from UTM, JPNJ and IRDA visited Tokyo and Kyoto to learn about LCS good practices under a technical tour of the research project. In this visit, engagement with the Ministry of Environment and education boards took place to enable Malaysian delegates to learn how policy impacts the environmental education in Japan. Visits to some selected secondary schools, primary schools, nursery, ecology centers and non-profit organization (NPO) provided some ideas of the best practices that can be carried out in IM. The practices were studied and at the end a few measures were introduced to the IM’s blueprint. III. POLICY INTO ACTION Following the global launching of the blueprint at COP18 Doha in November 2012, the Environment Division in IRDA, tasked with the strategic environmental planning and management of IM, focused on the Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 331 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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