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Our workshop’s objectives today:

1 Understand what is climate change and how it is affecting us

2 Learn about climate change related financial disclosures

•Discuss and explore the possible risks and opportunities related to

3 climate change

•Enhancecritical strategic thinking of climate change related

4 developments through scenario analysis

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This sharing session’s objectives

1 Understand what is climate change and how it is affecting us

2 Learn about what causes climate change

3 Get a glimpse of the future with climate change taking place

Learn about what the world and Malaysia is doing to mitigate climate
4 change

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But first, let’s hear what you say about climate
change..

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 Climate Change

“Climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening

now.”
– Barack Obama
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Weather is short-term, climate is long-term

Climate

Prevailing weather conditions at a particular area/region

over a long period of time
Affected by:
Latitude
Terrain
Altitude
Nearby water bodies
Weather

Atmospheric conditions
at a particular place and
time
Quantified and qualified
by:
Temperature
Malaysia’s climate:
Air pressure
1. Tropical 2. Average temperature 23ºC - 28ºC
Humidity
3. Humidity 70% – 90% 4. Extreme variations in rainfall linked
Precipitation
to monsoons (dry season: June – Sep, rainy season: Dec – Mar)
Cloudiness
Wind
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Climate change is real and affecting all of us in many ways

Climate change can be Natural causes include Solar irradiance changes cannot
due to natural processes solar irradiance changes plausibly account for >10% of
or anthropogenic factors and volcanic eruptions 20th century’s warming2

Anthropogenic causes are

essentially from production
of greenhouse gases
emitted by human activity

Scientists all over the world

concluded with >95%
probability that human-
produced GHGs caused
much of global warming Despite ups and downs from year to year, global average surface temperature is
over the past 50 years1 rising. By the beginning of the 21st century, Earth’s temperature was roughly 0.5
degrees Celsius above the long-term (1951–1980) average. (NASA figure adapted
from Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis)

1IPCC
5th Assessment Report (2014)
2NASA Global Climate Change website 7
The rate of global warming has increased, primarily due to the
enhanced greenhouse effect contributed by human activities

Source: https://www.environment.gov.au/climate-change/climate-science-data/climate-science/greenhouse-effect
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A global temperature increase of 2ºC has major implications

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oQUcUKInmI
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Impacts of climate change varies by geographic region but
overall it does not bode well for humankind

Source: http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/the-impacts-of-climate-change1.html 10
Climate change primarily impacts five sectors/areas in Malaysia

Heavier rainfall of 7-8% public health Reduction in certain Forest health Key risks are from
similar magnitude care facilities have crop yields, e.g., rice, flooding & extreme
but with shorter flood risk palm oil, rubber and Mangrove forests weather events
return periods cocoa from vulnerable to sea
Increasing cases prolonged dry spells level rise & saltwater Infrastructures
Downstream of Dengue, intrusion impacted incl. roads
flooding from Malaria, Zika, etc. Destruction of crops & drainage,
critical dam levels Impact on fauna transport infra
Food & water- Livestock & biodiversity less (railways, airports,
Prolonged borne diseases aquaculture pronounced than ports/jetties)
diminished water and chronic non- from habitat loss
storage levels communicable Food security Substations,

Saltwater
diseases
& Agriculture transmission towers

intrusion
increase
Forestry & and power plants
(hydro plants
Public health Biodiversity
riskier)
Coastal erosion
Heatwaves/high
Flooding temperatures ->
higher electricity
usage
Water & Coastal
resources
Infrastructure

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Malaysia is also feeling the heat, literally and figuratively, from
climate change effects

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The energy sector is the biggest emitter for GHG emission in
Malaysia

2014
The ‘Energy’ sector covers all
companies that directly or
indirectly deal with the
production and sales of energy,
which include:
• Oil and gas companies
• Integrated power utility
companies

2005

Percentages of Greenhouse Gas Major Sources of Carbon

Emissions by Sector in 2005 and 2014 Dioxide Emissions in 2014
Source: Malaysia Third National Communication and Second Biennial Update Report to the UNFCCC
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The world has responded through global agreements to curb
climate change and Malaysia is likewise committed to it

UNFCCC opened for Kyoto Protocol was adopted

signature at the Earth in 1997 and entered into force
Summit in Rio de Janeiro, in 2005
Brazil in 1992
International treaty that
Objective: to stabilize GHG commits state parties to
concentrations and sets reduce GHG emissions, based
non-binding limits on GHG on scientific consensus that
emissions for individual global warming is occurring,
countries. and anthropogenic GHG 2015 UN Climate Change
emissions are highly likely the Conference (COP 21 or CMP 11) was
No enforcement main cause held at Paris in Dec 2015
mechanisms
192 parties to the Protocol The Paris Agreement was negotiated
as a global agreement on the
reduction of climate change
Malaysia intends to reduce the GHG emissions
174 countries signed the Agreement
intensity by 45% by 2030 relative to the
in New York on 22 April 2016 (Earth
emissions intensity of GDP in 2005.
Day) and began adopting it within
their own legal systems
This consists of 35% on an unconditional basis
and a further 10% is conditional upon receipt of
Countries will pursue efforts to limit
climate finance, technology transfer and capacity
temperature increase to 1.5ºC, which
building from developed countries.
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Climate change is a key concern and the Malaysian
government is putting considerable resources to address it

Relevant extracts from latest Malaysian budget (2019)

RM 60 million to help fund specific state

RM 1,563,024,900 allocated to government projects to protect &
environment-related ministries expand natural reserves (e.g., forest and
marine reserves)

RM 2 billion Green Technology Expand list of green assets which qualify

Financing Scheme (GTFS) available at for the Green Technology Investment
selected commercial banks where Allowance (GITA) from 9 to 40 in the
government subsidises the interest cost MyHijau directory, to encourage green
by 2% for the 1st five years energy usage

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Final Points

 Climate change is real and the effects will be gradually be more

apparent if the current trajectory is maintained

 The Malaysian government is serious about mitigating climate change

and there is likely to be more action from them on the regulatory
front towards this.

 As a responsible organization, TNB must also start thinking earnestly

about climate change and its impact to its business. Likewise, TNB’s
BOD has also started taking climate change more seriously.

“The world is facing climate change problems now due to historical carbon
emissions that fuelled the industrial revolution of the now developed countries.

Therefore, I strongly believe that it is the moral obligation of the developed

countries to provide financial support and transfer technology to developing
countries,” she says in an e-mail interview.” – Yeo Bee Yin, Minister of Energy,
Science, Technology, Environment & Climate Change

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 THANK YOU

“Someone's sitting in the shade today

because someone planted a tree a long
time ago.”
― Warren Buffett

Disclaimer

All information contained herein are solely for the purpose of this internal presentation only and cannot be used or
referred to by any party for other purposes without prior written consent from TNB.

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