Budget 2025: A Wishlist For the Environment

Thing Siew Shuen, Senior Program Manager, Greenpeace Southeast Asia | Celine Lim, Managing Director, Save Rivers

14-Oct-24 15:00

Budget 2025: A Wishlist For the Environment

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Malaysia's Budget 2025 will be tabled in parliament on the 18th of October. How will the Madani government prioritise environmental sustainability and sustainable financing of the economy? We speak to two Malaysians working in the environment and conservation field - Thing Siew Shuen, the Senior Program Manager of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, and Celine Lim, the Managing Director of Save Rivers - about their wishlist for Budget 2025.

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Categories: government, Law/Activism, environment

Tags: CCUS, the bigger picture, earth matters, Budget-2025-Mahsing ⁠, indigenous rights, environmental sustainability, environmental conservation, deforestation, plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, greenpeace malaysia, save rivers,

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