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DRAFT SPEECH BY HON. SENATOR TAN SRI MOHD ALI MOHD RUSTAM, CHAIRMAN OF WORLD YOUTH FOUNDATION AT THE CLOSING CEREMONY OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE “YOUTH ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE”, SWISS-GARDEN HOTEL & RESIDENCES MALACCA, MALAYSIA ________________________________________________________________________ A VERY GOOD EVENING TO MR. ASFAAZAM KASBANI, ASSISTANT RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE, UNDP MALAYSIA, REPRESENTING MS. MICHELLE GYLES-MCDONNOUGH - UNITED NATIONS RESIDENT COORDINATOR FOR MALAYSIA, AND UNDP RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE FOR MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE AND BRUNEI DARUSSALAM MR. ABDULLAH RASHEED, CONSULTANT, REPRESENTING WORLD ORGANIZATION OF THE SCOUT MOVEMENT YBHG DATUK LIM CHOW BENG PENGURUS BESAR MAJLIS TINDAKAN PERLANCONGAN MELAKA 1 NEGERI /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 YBHG DATUK LIM SUE BENG DIRECTOR PYRAMID EXPRESS SDN BHD MR. M. H. MOHAMED HUSNI VICE CHAIR (INCLUSION & ENGAGEMENT) COMMONWEALTH YOUTH COUNCIL & CO-CHAIR OF COMMONWEALTH YOUTH FORUM 2015 MS. SAMEERA ZAIB ASSISTANT MANAGER (WATER & SANITATION SERVICES PESHAWAR) COMMONWEALTH YOUTH COUNCIL DR. EJRIA BINTI SALEH SENIOR LECTURER BORNEO MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, MALAYSIA MR. SIVAPALAN KATHIRAVALE PRINCIPAL ANALYST, EMERGING TECHNOLOGY MALAYSIAN INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT GROUP FOR HIGH TECHNOLOGY MS. SADRY SHARIFI DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF TEHRAN INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE UNESCO CATEGORY II CENTER, TEHRAN- IRAN MS. LIM AI YIM ADVOCATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE GROWTH CHAMPION, MALAYSIA 2 & GREEN /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 MR. K. NARAYANASAMY PRINCIPAL STAMFORD COLLEGE MS. VARSHA K. AJMERA CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER WORLD YOUTH FOUNDATION GUEST, PARTICIPANTS, AND MEMBERS OF THE PRESS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN SELAMAT DATANG AND A WARM WELCOME TO MELAKA AND TO THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE “YOUTH ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE”. I AM EXTREMELY GLAD THAT YOU HAVE BEEN HERE FOR THE LAST FOUR DAYS AND HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED ON VARIOUS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT ISSUES ON CLIMATE CHANGE. I UNDERSTAND HAVE BEEN AHVING INTENSE DISCUSSION ON HUMAN IMPACTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, OCEAN ACCIDIFCIATION, GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN GROWHT , AND BARRIERS TO YOUTH ENGAGEMENT IN COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE. 3 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 THIS ARE ALL VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES WHICH THE MELAKA STATE GOVERNMENT IS ALSO SERIOUSLY ADDRESSING. MELAKA IS KNOWN TO BE A GREEN CITY AND WAS DECLARED AS A DEVELOPED STATE IN 2010 BASED ON OECD’S INDICATORS, AND HAS COMPLETED THE MELAKA GREEN CITY ACTION PLAN (GCAP) IN APRIL 2014. MELAKA IN DEVELOPING TO BECOME A GREEN CITY STATE BY 2020, AND MELAKA IS THE FIRST STATE IN MALAYSIA TO JOIN THE UNITED NATION – URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACCORDS (UN-UEA), ESTABLISHING THE MELAKA GREEN TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL WHICH WILL SET THE GUIDELINES FOR THE GREEN INITIATIVE AND IMPLEMENTING THE MELAKA GREEN TECHNOLOGY CITY STATE BLUEPRINT 2011- 2020 TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES. MALAYSIA’S COMMITMENT TOWARDS GREEN IS EVIDENCED BY THE RAPID ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONAL TARGET TO CUT THE CARBON EMISSIONS INTENSITY OF THE COUNTRY'S GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP) BY 40 PER CENT BY 2020, AS 4 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 CHAMPIONED BY MALAYSIA’S PRIME MINISTER YAB DATO’ SRI MOHD NAJIB TUN HJ ABDUL RAZAK. MALAYSIA ANNOUNCED AT THE UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE SUMMIT 2014 THAT IT HAD EXCEEDED MORE THAN 33 PER CENT OF THIS TARGET DESPITE FACING DIFFICULTIES IN FULFILLING THE PLEDGE MADE DURING CONFERENCE OF PARTIES (COP 15) IN COPENHAGEN BY IMPLEMENTING NEW NATIONAL POLICIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND GREEN TECHNOLOGY. CLIMATE CHANGE GATHERED US HERE TODAY, AND WE HOPE, THAT THOUGH YOU COME FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS, AND DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE YOU WILL COME TOGETHER TO COME UP WITH COMMON STRATEGIES FOR OUR COMMON FUTURE. WHY CLIMATE CHANGE? WHY YOUTH? WHAT MOTIVATED US TO TACKLE THIS ISSUE DURING THIS INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP? 5 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 IT IS OUR DESIRE AT WORLD YOUTH FOUNDATION TO ENHANCE THE PARTICIPATION OF YOUTH THROUGH STRENGTHENING THEIR VOICES, THEIR PERSPECTIVES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. WE STONGLY BELIEVE THAT YOUTH BEING THE LARGEST SHOULD STAKEHOLDERS BE AT THE OF CIVIL FOREFRONT SOCIETY, OF ANY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE. HAVING TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT THE SEVENTH MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL WHICH IS TO ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND THE OUTCOME DOCUMENT FOR RIO+20 ENTITLED “THE FUTURE WE WANT”. WORLD YOUTH FOUNDATION DESIRES TO ENHANCE PARTICIPATION OF YOUTH. THIS IS AN UNSURPASSABLE TIME TO WORK ON THESE ISSUES, PARTICULARLY AT A TIME WHEN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, ESPECIALLY ISSUES ON CLIMATE CHANGE, HAVE BECOME KEY GLOBAL CHALLENGES. 6 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 MANY COUNTRIES ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING ADAPTATION PLANS AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION STRATEGIES TO HELP PEOPLE ADAPT TO CHANGING CLIMATIC CONDITIONS WHERE THEY LIVE MOST RECENTLY, YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE WORLD ARE SENDING STRONG MESSAGES TO THEIR GOVERNMENTS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO INCORPORATE AND PRIORITIZE CLIMATE CHANGE-RELATED ISSUES IN THE UPCOMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS. THIS IS BEING DONE THROUGH THEIR STRONG PARTICIPATION IN THE UNITED NATIONS MY WORLD GLOBAL SURVEY, THE SINGLE HIGHEST EFFORT BY THE UNITED NATIONS TO ENGAGE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD. AND SERVES AS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW YOUTH CAN MEANINGFULLY BE INCLUDED, IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA. 7 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 WORLD YOUTH FOUNDATION HAS COLLECTED 3000 VOTES THROUGH OUR ONLINE AND OFFLINE VOLUNTEERS. A SPECIAL THANKS TO STAMFORD COLLEGE MALACCA FOR THEIR SUPPORT. THE MY WORLD SURVEY IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUTH TO HAVE THEIR SAY IN DETERMINING THE POST-2015 AGENDA AND I CALL UPON EACH AND EVERY MALAYSIAN TO TAKE THE VOTE. IN A COUNTRY WITH 28 MILLION PEOPLE IT IS A PITY THAT ONLY 5000 PEOPLE HAS VOTED SO FAR. WORLDWIDE ABOUT 7.5 MILLION HAVE RECORDED THEIR VOTES, “WE WILL WORK TO PASS THE SURVEY ON TO OTHER YOUTH IN MALAYSIA WHICH MEANS GETTING INTO VILLAGES AND INTO SCHOOLS,” WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR VOICES OF ALL MALASYIANS ARE HEARD AS WE TRANSITION INTO THE NEXT SET OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS.” 8 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE ALL HERE WITH THE SAME COMMON GOAL. TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENSURE A HEALTHY PLANET FOR ALL OF US AND THE FUTURE GENERATIONS. THE OUTCOME DOCUMENT AND PAPERS IN WHICH ALL YOUR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATES WERE DERIVED IN THE LAST FOUR DAYS , NEED TO HAVE A CONSISTENT FOLLOW THROUGH SO WE AS A COMMUNITY CAN REACH OUR OBJECTIVES. YOU, AS SIGNATORIES OF THE OUTCOME DOCUMENTS, HAVE A STRATEGIC STAKE IN THE MAKING SURE THAT YOUR ASPIRATIONS ARE TRANSLATED INTO ACTIONS ONCE YOU RETURN HOME. I AM GLAD TO KNOW THAT WORLD YOUTH FOUNDATION WILL BE HOLDING A SIDE EVENT IN PARIS DURING COP21 (CONFERENCE OF PARTIES) MEETING . WHERE ABOUT 20,000 PEOPLE ARE EXEPECTED TO COME TOGETHER TO SHOW A 9 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 MASSIVE WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR AN AMBITIOUS CLIMAT CHANGE AGREEMENT. I WANT TO GIVE MY SPECIAL THANKS TO THE COMONWEALTH YOUTH COUNCIL FOR ENDORSING THIS EVENT. WE HIGHLY APPRECIATE YOUR ENDORSEMENT. A SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO THE CO-ORGANIZERS OF THIS ACTIVITY: THE MINISTRY OF YOUTH AND SPORTS, THE NATIONAL COMMISSION OF UNESCO MALAYSIA, UNDP MALAYSIA , TENAGA NATIONAL BERHAD, ROYAL MALAYSIAN POLICE FORCE, STAMFORD COLLEGE MALACCA AND ALL RESOURCE PERSONS, VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF OF WORLD YOUTH FOUNDATION FOR MAKING THIS HARD WORK. ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE “YOUTH ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE”. 10 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015 TO ALL THE FOREIGN DELEGATES, I HOPE YOU HAD A FUN TIME IN HISTORICAL MELAKA A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE CITY. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU BACK IN MALACCA SOON . I HEREBY DECLARE THIS INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE “YOUTH ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE” OFFICIALLY CLOSE. THANK YOU. Hon. Senator Tan Sri Mohd Ali Rustam, Chairman World Youth Foundation 24th May 2015 11 /VA/IWCC/draft Datuk Speech/24May2015