Malaysia - Environmental Problems and Protection

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia, the word's No.2 palm oil producer, will come up with a certification scheme to ensure the tropical oil is grown without clearing forests and destroying wildlife, a newspaper reported on Monday.The Business Times quoted Commodities Minister Bernard ...

Malaysia is launching an ambitious plan to build a "green economy" with the help of an advisory council that includes economist Jeffrey Sachs and the UN climate change chief.The initiative is part of economic reforms instituted by Prime Minister Najib Razak since ...

Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever, in a landmark trial slammed Wednesday by environmentalists who say the experiment is unsafe.In the first experiment of its kind in Asia, about 6,000 male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were released ...

Round table?on Sustainable Palm oil has been constituted to protect the forest land in countries where these forest are being destroyed for palm oil plantation and keep interest of all stake holders in entire supply chain of palm oil such as producers ...

Malaysia plans to triple its annual revenue from timber and its products to 17 billion dollars by 2020 by exporting to new markets including Russia, an official said Tuesday.Malaysia is a major tropical timber exporter and the trade contributes about five percent ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Illegal logging has fallen by 22 percent worldwide in the past decade but remains a huge problem from Brazil to Indonesia, a study showed on Thursday.It also said that China was the main importer and processor of illegal timber, ...

European palm oil buyers who are refusing to purchase expensive eco-friendly palm oil were named and shamed Monday by environmental campaigners WWF International.Only 10 out of the 59 major retailers and manufacturers surveyed in an industry scorecard have lived up to their ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life! ) - Grocery shopping is going green, with a global survey showing the majority of people would go out of their way to shop at an environmentally friendly supermarket and buy locally produced food.Market research firm Synovate asked more ...

Malaysia is zooming in on forests with a satellite in order to fight illegal logging which its government says is harming the major timber exporting country, a report said Sunday.Darus Ahmad, deputy director-general with the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency, said the " ...

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Topic: Malaysia

Malaysia plans green palm oil certification scheme: report

Malaysia unveils plan to build 'green economy'

Malaysia releases GM mosquitoes in landmark trial

What is the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil?

Malaysia aims to triple timber trade to 17bn USD

World illegal logging down, still big problem: study

European palm oil buyers shun 'eco-friendly variety'

Green, lean retailers attract more grocery shoppers: survey

Malaysia 'using satellite to fight illegal logging'

Malaysia uses satellite to fight illegal logging: report

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