The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, global professional accounting body, encouraged the Malaysian government to adopt green budgeting practices in order to identify priorities and opportunities for action. Green budgeting is an approach that integrates climate change and environmental considerations into budget processes and decision making, said ACCA Maritime Southeast Asia Portfolio head Andrew Lim, “Over time, green budgeting should enable the Malaysian government to divert from activities and investments with negative impact on the environment towards more sustainable and climate positive actions”.

Source: The Borneo Post Online