Charting Malaysia's Climate-Aligned Development Pathway

About this episode

The episode discusses Malaysia's development pathway towards high income status while addressing climate change challenges with insights from an environmental economist.

Malaysia aims to reach high income status by 2030, but the development pathway needs to take into account the mitigation and adaptation needs of climate change. We speak to Muthukumara S. Mani, Lead Environmental Economist with the World Bank about how Malaysia can balance these interests in the short and long term. Read the World Bank's Country Climate and Development Report for Malaysia here . This episode of People, Planet, Profit is brought to you by Bacfree. Shaping tomorrow's water. Image Credit: Shutterstock See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Guest: Muthukumara S. Mani

Topics covered

• climate change
• economic development
• high income status
• environmental economics
• Malaysia

Keywords

• Malaysia
• climate-aligned development
• World Bank
• high income
• environmental economist
• mitigation
• adaptation

Sponsors

Bacfree

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: World Bank

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