A ‘whole of nation’ effort


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OVER the last few months, a national Planetary Health Action Plan has been hatched by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.

While other nations are also looking at the development of plans, policies and programmes that focus on the relationship between the health of the planet and the people living on it, it seems we are the first country in South-East Asia to start the process of explicitly developing and adopting such a plan.

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