Country needs to pay serious attention to rising global temperature - Ismail Sabri

KUALA LUMPUR: The country needs to pay serious attention to the impact of rising global temperature of above 1.1 degrees Celsius which results in dry season and frequency of floods, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

He said the matter was emphasised at the Third Meeting of the National Water Council (MAN) 2021 which he chaired virtually today and was also attended by federal ministers, Chief Ministers and Menteris Besar, Chief Secretary to the Government, Secretary-General of the Treasury, as well as heads of the relevant departments and agencies.

According to the prime minister, the meeting recommended that actions that take into account factors on the impact of climate change should be implemented immediately in development planning to avoid increased property damage and loss of life.

Apart from that, he said, the meeting also emphasised the water sector transformation agenda, carried out under the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP) to 15MP, that would make the water sector an economic enabler and a generator of dynamic growth by 2040.

"Close cooperation between the federal and the state government is very important in ensuring the success of the transformation agenda," he said in a statement here today.