COMMENT At the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak informed that Malaysia was committed to meet its targets to reduce the carbon emission intensity of its Gross Domestic Products (GDP) by 40 percent by 2020, compared with its 2005 levels.

This was conditional to receiving assistance in the form of technology transfer and financing from developed countries. Malaysia also pledged to keep 50 percent of our country’s land area forested.

At the United Nations Climate Summit in New York in September 2014, Najib announced that Malaysia had already reduced the emissions intensity of GDP by more than 33 percent, and we are well on track to hit our target of 40 percent reduction by 2020.