KOTA KINABALU: The controversial Nature Conservation Agreement (NCA) involving a two-million-hectare of state forest reserve for carbon credit trading cannot move forward as it was legally flawed.
Legal advisor to Sabah Government, Tengku Datuk Ahmad Fuad, said the agreement did not conform with the Sabah Biodiversity Enactment 2000, which required all exploitation of biological resources to be first approved by the director of the Biodiversity Institute with the approval of the Biodiversity Council.
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