Newswriting Assignment 2

PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister, Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak gave a speech of Malaysia Green Forum 2010 on 26^th April at Sri Siantan Conference Hall for advancing environmental and landscape issues.

Malaysia Green Forum main objective is to build an action‐oriented network that deals with environmental issues in a holistic manner. The MGF2010 has drawn the participation of senior government officials, industry captains, society leaders and academic experts from within and outside the country. 

Malaysia is one of the countries with the richest biodiversity in the world, which prized with 16 million hectares of tropical forest area, and 73% of them are protected as a national park. He hopes that through MGF2010 meeting, the participants would be able to come up with creative, innovative and pragmatic solutions to the green issue our country face today, said by Dato'Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak.

The prime minister mention that he would like to recognize the critical contribution by Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for bringing together 14 agencies from 4 different ministries when he established the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in 2004 that paved the way for a more comprehensive and cohesive approach in tackling environmental issues.

The government has consistently affirmed its commitment to environmental sustainability over the years and continues to take cognizance of the growing need and urgency of green technology towards sustainable development, said by the Prime Minister.

Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak announced the formation of the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water after six day of taking office. The government continues to take cognizance of the growing need and urgency of green technology towards sustainable development. 

Hence the National Green Technology Policy was launched last year, just 106 days after the setting up of the said ministry. A technical arm called The National Green Technology Center also came to being through a restructuring exercise of the then Malaysia Energy Centre. He would like to thank for the forum partners such as Sime Darby Berhad, UEM Group Berhad, and TSR Capital Berhad for coming forward to demonstrate their operate social responsibility for supporting the forum, he added.