KUALA LUMPUR: The establishment of a national disaster management council, proposed by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, is urgently needed to provide centralised leadership and long-term planning amid Malaysia’s growing climate-related disaster risks, according to Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye (pic).
The Alliance For A Safe Community chairman said the country’s existing disaster management approach, which has largely focused on seasonal monsoon floods, is no longer adequate in the face of increasingly frequent and unpredictable climate-related disasters.
