KOTA KINABALU: The state's stakeholders must address environmental impacts stemming from hillside clearing and poor solid waste management, says Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Christina Liew.
"The Sabah Environment Protection Council (MPASS) must take a serious view of environmental issues in line with our commitment to ensuring sustainable environmental governance in line with the Sabah State Environmental Policy 2017,” said Liew during the Council’s first meeting for the year on Tuesday (May 27), which she chaired.
The council meeting agreed that follow-up discussions between technical departments and agencies should be held.
The Environment Protection Department (EPD) presented two discussion papers: the Study on Environmental Education Materials and Policy Implementation and the Study on the Water Quality Management Plan for the Sungai Inanam Catchment in Kota Kinabalu.
The department would distribute the results of the studies, including environmental awareness modules, a best practices document for environmental education, and board games, to stakeholders for reference and guidance.
It was also decided that recommendations from the water quality studies in Sungai Inanam would be adopted to prevent pollution and manage the water quality in that particular river.
Among those present were the ministry's deputy permanent secretary, I Mary Malangking; Natural Resources Office Secretary, Sernam Singh; EPD deputy director, Daisy Aloysius; Drainage and Irrigation Department deputy director, Miklin Ationg and Sabah Environment Department deputy director, Yaras Yurus.
