Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in Universiti Teknologi

Malaysia : A Synthesis of Adaptive Institutions

Irina Safitri Zen1,2, Clare D’Souza3, Mohd Hamdan Ahmad4,2 & Syed Ahmad Iskandar Bin Syed Ariffin4,2.

1Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Low Carbon Asia Center, Center for Innovative Planning and Development (CIPD), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 811310 Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia (irinasafitri@utm.my)

2Institute Sultan Iskandar (ISI), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 811310 Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

.3College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, Department of Management and Marketing, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University, VIC 3086, Australia (C.DSouza@latrobe.edu.au)

4Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, Center for The Study of Built Environment in the Malay World (KALAM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 811310 Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia (drmedan@gmail.my).

Global Warming & Climate Change

Voluntary Low Carbon Commitment

Malaysia CommitmentSpeech by YAB Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Prime Minister“… Malaysia is proposed a voluntary reduction up to 40%in terms of carbon emission intensity of GDP by the year2020 compared to 2005 levels.” 17th December 2009

Global Citizens + ResponsibilitiesFor the Earth, for our future generation

Green Sustainability as New Consumer - SustainableCulture, New Market, New Growth

Money SavingEnergy conservation and renewable energy

How Adaptive we are?• In translating the Global Environmental Challenge

and challenges in response to the country demand on Carbon Emission Reduction?

• Scale down the global challenge in our institution?• ADAPTIVE in literal sense has been described as

recover[ing] or adjust[ing] to change through learning and flexibility, so as to maintain or improve to a desirable state (Folke et al., 2006).

• ADAPTIVE INSTITUTION defined as the ability of institution to adjust to encourage individuals to act in ways that maintain or improve to a desirable state (Koontz et al. 2015).

System dynamics (SD) is an approach to understanding the nonlinear behaviour of complex systems over time using stocks, flows, internal feedback loops, and time delays.

CampusSustainability

HEI roles in Sustainable Development

UTM CS :Translating Nation Agenda

How we develop our internal ADAPTIVE CAPACITY ?

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UTM Sustainable Campus - UTM Kampus Lestari

Healthy, Happy & Sustainable Lifestyle

MOTO “UTM Sustainable Campus : Empowering Sustainable Culture”

The Policy StatementShall ensure that UTM functions as a Sustainable Campus Community through responsible and optimized resource management; innovative environmental and ecosystem management; efficient energy management and leadership commitment and campus-wide participation.

StrengtheningInstitutional DNA

Learning culture and innovation ecosystem

DNA‐1: Culture of Sustainability● Expenses on routine programs● Space management● Resources utilization– Electricity– Water supply– Paper and consumables– Chemicals etc● ULC (unit labour cost) =

(growth in wages) minus (growthin productivity).

• Sustainable Campus Council, Technical Committee and Unit of Sustainability.

Vice‐Chancellor Zaini Ujangzaini@utm.myhttp://www.utm.my/vc

Monthly Assembly 4 June 2012

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Sustainable Arcade ‘Eco-Food Court’ 2012

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From FORK to FARMSustainable Consumption

Production

VOLUNTERISM SPIRIT : Kelab Eko-Lestari

Kempen Arked Lestari

The Transformative and Integrative Approach of UTM

Campus Sustainability Campus Living Learning Lab

IP/CR/2016/0550

Current Estimation : UTM LCCF : BEST PRACTICE 3 2012

Characteristic of Adaptive Institution in UTM Environmental Sustainability Initiative

• Green Office has several adaptive institutions characteristics. i. The effort is ‘participatory’ and ‘inclusive’ due to the involvement of 60

Green Managers and 45 Energy Manager that represents faculties, centres and units – UTM society as a whole – mixed of socio-technical approach

ii. ‘integrative’ and ‘accountable’ due to the monitoring performance and Key Performance Index (KPIs) by faculty and centres.

iii. Provide a ‘learning’ platform for the students to do the socio behavioural research and Green Manager to learn about the simple actions from their daily office life that can contribute to climate change.

iv. Other characters are encouraging Green Managers to come up with a ‘creative’ approach to do the campaign in their area and giving the ‘autonomy’ to the faculty and centre to manage their own income from activities under Green Offices made the sustainability issues highly feasible.

adaptive governance

• A leading approach to successfully meet the challenges of changes in social-ecological systems is.

• aims to provide for collaborative, flexible, and learning-based approaches to managing ecosystems (Olsson et al., 2006).

• gained widespread support among scholars, who argue that it is responsive to emerging problems and knowledge surrounding complex ecological systems (Heikkila, 2010; Gunderson and Light, 2006).

• can foster effective management and use of shared assets such as common pool resources and environmental assets that provide ecosystem services (Hatfield-Dodds et al., 2007).

• Others emphasize the complementary government and community-based institutional arrangements that work together in adaptive governance to improve natural resource management (Nelson et al., 2008).

Iskandar Malaysia – a Sustainable Metropolis

a new economic region

Low Carbon Society

is a new society that consumes relatively low amounts of resources (raw materials, energy and water) in minimising GHG emissions to avoid adverse effects of climate change

(Skea and Nishioka 2008).

Action Names Themes

1 Integrated Green Transportation

GREEN ECONOMY

2 Green Industry

3 Low Carbon Urban Governance

4 Green Buildings & Construction

5Green Energy System & Renewable Energy

6 Low Carbon Lifestyle **GREEN

COMMUNITY7Community Engagement & Consensus Building

8Walkable, Safe, Livable City Design

GREEN ENVIRONMENT

9 Smart Growth

10Green and Blue Infrastructure & Rural Resources

11 Sustainable Waste Management

12 Clean Air Environment

• The LCSBPIM2025 – a quick reference for all policy-makers in both public & private sectors;

• 12 Actions grouped in 3 parts: (Green Economy), (Green Community) & Green Environment)

• 281 programmes.• Each Chapter contains an analysis, list of

programmes & the GHG emission reductions; • IRDA launched the LCSBPIM2025 on 30 Nov 2012

at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar. The ultimate goal is to reduce Iskandar Malaysia’s carbon intensity emissions by 50% by 2025.

• The Blueprint was subsequently endorsed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia in Dec 2012.

• Implementation of the 281 programmes started in Jan 2013.

• 25 programmes implemented so far (June 2016)

Low Carbon Society Blueprint for

Iskandar Malaysia 2025 (LCSBPIM 2025)

**Community programme implementation is

under Action 6: Low Carbon Lifestyle

* Preliminary

Study: Brochure Low Carbon City 2025 Sustainable Iskandar Malaysia

*Low Carbon Society Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia 2025 -Summary for Policymakers

Launched COP18 Doha.

*Low Carbon Society Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia 2025 -Full Report

*A Roadmap towards Low Carbon Iskandar Malaysia 2025

*Iskandar Malaysia: Actions for a Low Carbon Future.

Launched COP19 Warsaw.

*Low Carbon Society Brochures for 5 Local Authorities

*Your Guide To Low Carbon Lifestyles in Iskandar Malaysia.

Launched at COP20 Lima.

*Low Carbon Society Action Plan 2025 for 5 Local Authorities within Iskandar Malaysia (Johor Bahru, Johor Bahru Tengah, Pasir Gudang, Kulai & Pontian)

2009 2012 2013 2014 2015

Low Carbon Publications

COP 18, Doha COP 19, Warsaw

COP 20, Lima

MOA, 2012 MOA, 2013

COP 21, Paris MOA, 2015

AIC, 2016. Chief Minister of Johor

State symbolically hands over the

LCS5AP to Local Authority presidents.

Local & International Launches

Upcoming Events:

1. Habitat III - October 2016

2. RCE Conference - November 2016

3. COP 22 - November 2016

*COP= Conference of Parties

*MOA=Members of Authority (IRDA Board)

*AIC= Approvals and Implementation Committee (IRDA

Committee)IMELC getting national and international attention and

recognition through the above-mentioned events.

RCE Iskandar• Coordinator: Prof Dr Ho Chin Siong

(Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM)

• Coordinator: Mr Boyd Joeman (Iskandar Regional Development Agency, IRDA)

Key Projects Agencies

1. Iskandar Malaysia Eco-Life Challenge

UTM, IRDA, JPNJ, Industry

2. Eco-Tourism Village Kampung Sungai Melayu, IRDA, Kawan Iskandar Malaysia

3. Low Carbon Village FELDA Taib Andak

FELDA Taib Andak, IRDA, UTM

4. Problem-Based Learning on LCS

UTM, JPNJ, JICA

5. Sustainable & Low Carbon School Exhibition

UTM, IRDA, JPNJ, SWCorp, DoE, MNS, GES, Industry

Multi-level Implementation of Low Carbon Initiative

Transformative Education in RCE Iskandar – Role of Non State Actor

As part of societal learning process, there are several transformative education approach taking place in IM :i. Facilitating the FGD, a participatory approach during the

development of LCSBP-IM. ii. Setting up the GHG reduction target for IM followed by the

continous monitoring tools for LAs to measures the GHG reductions.iii. Kawan Iskandar Malaysia or Friends of IM - business enterprise,

government agencies and local communities involves in Responsible Ecotourism.

iv. The LCS Low Carbon Eco-village – educate the village on LCS lifestyle e.g. practice of energy saving, 3-Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle), creation of green products, composting, planting of bamboo trees, provisional of pedestrian path and cycling activity.

v. IMELC – Iskandar Malaysia Eco-Life Challenge (UTM & Johor State Education Department) : involves primary and secondary school students, Problem-Based Learning (PBL) learn about CC as part of the ESD.

Understanding theinterconnections

of systems – System Thinking.

GloCal - Think globally and Act locally

Env-Soc Dynamic InteractionProtect nature

and people

Transform business as usual - BAU.

Sustainability Science- Lead by example in your actions

Sustainability Leadership

Sustainability Leadership

5 Principles

Understanding the interconnections of systems.

It is vital to recognize how each group of related factors (people, objects, processes, etc…) are connected and contingency impact.

Think globally and toward the future

Consider what current and future impacts you are making with each decision on other countries, society, oceans, animals, communities, waste, resources, etc…

Protect nature and people.

Distinguish how actions taken affect people and the environment. Try to make decisions that will reduce the negative impacts on 2nd and 3rd levels of people, processes, the environment, and economies.

Transform business as usual

Do something different within your span of control. Change a habit which reduces waste such as reading via an e-book or printing double sided.

Lead by example in your actions.

Be responsible for yourself, your job, your actions, and your organization. Hold the organization accountable to lead by example in its actions. Hold yourself accountable to reduce waste and increase efficiency. Others will follow.

UTM CS INSTITUTIONAL LINKAGES - GLOCAL

The Solution : Different Framework, Approach & Initiatives

Terima Kasih. Thank You.