Policy Advocacy

GREEN TECHNOLOGY

1. National Green Technology Policy is built on the country's core pillars, and the Government has identified Green Technology as a key driver of future economic growth.

2. An Energy Efficiency Master Plan and a National Renewable Energy Policy are in the making and the allocation of several incentives, grants and soft loans are bound to be in place.

3. The Green Technology Council needs to address the formulation of Industrial Energy Efficiency (IEE) Policy which will drive the energy efficiency transformation across all manufacturing sectors including the processing of agricultural products.

RENEWABLE ENERGY

1.The Dewan Rakyat had on Monday 4 April 2011 passed the bill in relation to the Renewable Energy Act 2010

2. Currently, the renewable energy is categorised under both the Green Technology and Energy sectors. The Energy Sector is based on the National Energy Policy 1979 and followed by the National Depletion Policy 1980 and the Fuel Diversification Strategies in 1981 and 2001 respectively.

3. The Energy Commission is currently developing an Energy blueprint that would lead to a comprehensive National Energy Policy (NEP) that is expected to include renewable energy.

4. In 2009, the National Green Technology Policy (NGTP) was launched but renewable energy was only featured as a sub-sector in the NGTP.

5. The Malaysian Government has now introduced the Feed in Tariff (FIT). Read more

WASTE

1. The Solid Waste and Urban Cleansing Management Act gazetted in 2007 (Act 672) was reported last year as a major breakthrough to reorganize the sector.

2. However, it was reported on 29th March 2011 in the Sun newspapers that the Federal Government has decided to postpone the implementation of the said Act which enforcement was suppose to come into effect on 30 April 2011.

3. The Penang government was reported to have addressed certain technical aspects that needed sorting out such as the privatizing of solid waste management. The concern was the issue of accountability as state governments and local authorities do not have a say in running privatized projects and have no power to enforce compliance or punish non-performance. The other concern was attending to long delays as problems can only be finalised in Putrajaya.